Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) highlights importance of rapid chlamydia testing
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
Rapid, non-laboratory chlamydia tests are a key tool in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) war on STDs. CDC's director of STD prevention, Dr Judith Wasserheit, says "Three of the four long-term or irreversible complications that make sexually transmitted diseases a central public health priority are caused by chlamydia." The CDC believes immediate diagnosis and treatment with single-dose antibiotics could cut transmission.