Can only one partner have chlamydia?

Answer 1

Few Infectious Diseases are transmitted after 100% of exposures. In the case of chlamydia, estimates are that there's a 40-50% chance of getting it from any episode of vaginal sex with an infected partner. This can do with various factors. For instance, the presence of another infectious disease (like herpes) can be a "window of opportunity" for a second infectious disease to enter. Our bodies, and the "shedding" schedule of a present virus or disease have a lot to do with it too. Basically, just luck.

Also, it could be a false-positive or false-negative result.

It's possible that an intervening antibiotic prescription for some other purpose, such as amoxicillin for sinusitis or doxycycline for Lyme disease, could have cleared the infection in one person before they even knew they had it.

In addition, a certain percentage of people clear chlamydia without treatment. The infection may still have done damage before the immune system cleared it.

A few people may have a temporary mild immunity to chlamydia after recent infection, so it's possible that one person just had a little more immune protection against the infection than the other.

The important points to remember:

• Due to the risk of undetected chlamydia, partners of patients who test positive for chlamydia may be treated.
• While couples facing an STD should have a frank discussion about monogamy, you cannot assume that one partner has been unfaithful just because one has a positive chlamydia test and the other doesn't.

Answer 2

I can see one of three possibilities:

1. You had it from a past relationship.
2. Your partner already had it before beginning a relationship with you.
3. Your partner has other partners.

Sexual exposure is the only way of contracting chlamydia. Men generally do not have symptoms and can certainly have it for many years; the fact that it was given to you does not necessarily mean that your partner is currently with any other people, but it would suggest that any partner that he had been with in his life gave it to him if you truly have never had sexual contact with another person. The important thing is that both you and your husband need to be treated at the same time, or else you will keep giving it to each other.

Answer 3

You can get chlamydia if you or your partner caught it from someone else. You can get chlamydia from oral, anal, or vaginal sex; genital-genital contact; sharing sex toys; or from being born to a woman with chlamydia.

Answer 4

If you don't have it, and they do, they have mostly likely cheated.
Yes, that is possible but not probable.

Answer 5

You can get chlamydia from your first boyfriend. Although multiple partners make STD infection more likely, you only need one partner to get an STD.

Answer 6

You get chlamydia from sexual contact with an infected person. If you or your partner were infected by a previous partner, you could have chlamydia.

Answer 7

If neither person is infected, then you can not contract chlamydia from each other.

Answer 8

Not definitely, but more than likely.