''C. trachomatis'' infection can be effectively cured with antibiotics once it is detected. Current Centers for Disease Control guidelines provide for the following treatments:
- Azithromycin 1 gram oral as a single dose, or
- Doxycycline 100 milligrams twice daily for seven to fourteen days.
- Tetracycline
- Erythromycin
Untested Treatments
- Ciprofloxacin 500 milligrams twice daily for 3 days. (Although this is not an approved method of treatment.)
β-lactams are not suitable drugs for the treatment of chlamydia. While they have the ability to halt growth of the organism (i.e. are microbistatic), these antibiotics do not eliminate the bacteria. Once treatment is stopped, the bacteria will begin to grow once more. (See below for Persistence.)
An option for treating partners of patients (index cases) diagnosed with chlamydia or gonorrhea is ''patient-delivered partner therapy'' (PDT or PDPT), which is the clinical practice of treating the sex partners of index cases by providing prescriptions or medications to the patient to take to his/her partner without the health care provider first examining the partner.
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