UT Health San Antonio leading $11 million study of oral vaccine for chlamydia

Researchers at UT Health San Antonio will lead a five-year, $11 million study on a possible vaccine for the nation's most commonly reported sexually transmitted disease.

The possible vaccine came about when physician and researcher Dr. Guangming Zhong made an accidental discovery that genital chlamydia in mice had spread to the gastrointestinal tract and made a home there. Zhong is the principal investigator in the study and professor of microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics at the Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.

While the results are promising, a possible vaccine for humans is still years away, according to UT Health officials. Because chlamydia doesn’t have specific symptoms it often goes untreated and can lead to pelvic inflammatory disease, infertility and ectopic pregnancy.

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