Doctors call chlamydia in the throat a pharyngeal chlamydia infection. It’s possible, but not likely, that you could get chlamydia in your throat. To understand how or why it could happen ...

Compared with other extragenital STIs, the incidence and duration of pharyngeal chlamydia are low among men who have sex with men, according to a recent study.Researchers said the findings support ...

A doctor may refer to a chlamydia infection in the throat as pharyngeal chlamydia. Testing for chlamydia in the throat is not a common practice in STI testing, as it does not have approval from ...

Doctors may be failing to detect large numbers of gonorrhea and chlamydia infections in women if they don't test patients' throats and rectums for the sexually transmitted diseases, researchers at ...

Of the 434 tests conducted, 34 (7.8%) were positive — 18 for chlamydia (13 rectal, 2 pharyngeal, and 3 urethral) and 16 for gonorrhea (8 rectal, 5 pharyngeal, and 3 urethral).

Urine specimens, self-collected vaginal, rectal or pharyngeal swabs and tampon specimens can all be used for chlamydia testing with NAATs. However, where sampling methods have not been approved by ...

Linear Diagnostics, a spinout from University of Birmingham, U.K. has received funding to finesse a point-of-care test for rapid diagnosis of gonorrhoea and Chlamydia in men who have sex with men ...

Kent CK, Chaw JK, Wong W, et al. Prevalence of rectal, urethral, and pharyngeal chlamydia and gonorrhea detected in 2 clinical settings among men who have sex with men: San Francisco, California ...