Chlamydia trachomatis is a bacterium that causes trachoma, an eye disease resulting in blindness. It is transmitted through eye-seeking flies or touching eyes/noses with infected hands or surfaces. Symptoms vary by gender and age but include trachoma, infertility in women, and genital/urinary issues in men. Treatment involves tetracycline ointment but the disease may return within a year. Trachoma affects over 500 million people worldwide.

1. Chlamydia
trachomatis
ByChante Simms

2. What is Chlamydia
trachomatis?
 A bacterium that
causes a disease called
trachoma that results
in blindness

3. What are the
symptoms?
 the symptoms vary
with gender and even
the age. Some of the
common symptoms of
Chlamydia trachomatis
infection are trachoma,
infertility in women,
genital and urinary
problems in men and
conjunctivitis in
infants.

4. How do you get infected
by this eye disease?
 The
trachoma can
be
transmitted
by the eye
seeking flies
and also by
the eye and
nose
touching
with an
infected hand
or with other
fomites like

5. Is there any treatments
or cure for this eye
disease?
 The treatment of
trachoma is with the
usage of tetracycline
ointment but it may
come back in 6 – 12
months

6. What are the statistics of
this eye disease?
 Trachoma affects
approximately 500
million people
worldwide