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If chlamydia was treated and cured, can it still survive somewhere in the body and reinfect if there was no new exposure to it??
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No: The medicine you took gets into your blood, which takes it everywhere the germ could hide and kills it.The germ is quite sensitive and needs a special environment to live.It cannot survive on your body surface or anywhere else your blood supply does not reach. Re-infection requires a new exposure to an infected source.
Answered 11/27/2017
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