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==treatment==
Treatment depends on the cause and generally involves use of [[antibiotic]] therapy. See specific diseases for treatment. Treatment may take longer than other infections especially if an [[abscess]] has developed. Insufficient dose, wrong drug or drug resistance, or too short duration of treatment may lead to continued symptoms/infection/complications. Treating partners for STD's is a very important part of treatment and prevention. Hospitalization may be necessary if Tubo-ovarian abscess, very ill, immunodeficient, pregnancy, incompetence, or because this or something else life threatening can not be ruled out. Anyone with PID and partners of patients with PID should be treated for N. gonorrhoea and C. trachomatis.
[[Abstinence]] should be practiced for 7 days after a single dose treatment for chlamydia (not with PID) or until the 7 day course is completed or transmission to others could still occur (cecil's essentials of medicine 5th ed).
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