Why, when a person is diagnosed with gonorrhea, are they also generally treated for chlamydia at the same time?
a. The pharmaceutical company that developed the antibiotics to treat gonorrhea and chlamydia ran a successful marketing campaign that convinced physicians that there was a critical need to treat both sexually transmitted infections concurrently.
b. Gonorrhea and chlamydia are caused by the same bacteria.
c. Gonorrhea and chlamydia share the same transport mechanism, causing them to infect the same cells; thus the comorbidity rate of gonorrhea and chlamydia is nearly 96%.
d. In some regions of the country, 25% of men and 40% of women with gonorrhea also have chlamydia, and it is less expensive to treat chlamydia than to test for its presence.
ANS: D
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