[Question #7186] Sti exposure
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Edward W. Hook M.D.
6 months ago
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Welcome to the Forum and thanks for your questions. I'll be glad to comment. The exposure that you describe was very low risk for a number of reasons, even before you took the azithromycin. Please remember that licensed CSWs in Australia are regularly tested for STIs and typically use condoms. Condoms break approximately 1% of the time. Thus the likelihood that your partner had an STI was close to zero. Even if she did, the majority of single exposures to do not lead to infection. Thus, even despite this exposure, it is unlikely that you would have been infected.
The azithromycin you took reduces your already low risk for infection even more. The azithromycin would cure chlamydia if present, cure about 70% of gonorrhea if present and prevent syphilis in at least 80% of syphilis infection.
I would not worry further about STI risk from this exposure. I see no reason for testing and urge you to relax an d not go overboard with repeated self-examination. If you developed signs of an STI, you would not need to be scrutinizing your genital regions to detect it. EWH
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Edward W. Hook M.D.
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Edward W. Hook M.D.
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