Creative Biolabs is a leading service provider that focuses on polyclonal and monoclonal antibody development for research, diagnosis, and potential therapeutics. Based on our extensive experience and state-of-the-art platforms, Creative Biolabs now offers a series of biomarker-specific IVD (in vitro diagnostic) antibody development services to clients globally. We are confident that our commitment to science and research will enable us to offer you the best products and services.
Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), also known as sexually transmitted infections (STIs) or venereal diseases (VD), are diseases that are contracted through sexual contact. A wide range of organisms including chlamydiae, fungi, protozoa, bacteria, viruses, and arthropods could cause STDs. Most of STDs now could be treated successfully, however certain untreated STDs such as AIDS still keeps a huge public health problem. Despite the improvement of hygiene standards as well as the better health care, STDs remain epidemic in all societies and the number of pathogens causing STD continues to increase.
Common STDs
In addition to the main transmission route-sexual contact, some STDs can also spread through blood transfusion, the use of unsterilized drug needles, breastfeeding, and from mother to baby during childbirth. Depending on distinct characters of pathogens infected, the clinical manifestations are different ranging from blindness to infertility, or even to life-threatening. Acquired immune deficiency (AIDS), caused by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), is the most widely publicized sexually transmitted disease which destroys one's immune system and, as a consequence, makes the body become much more vulnerable to infections and diseases. Hepatitis B, caused by hepatitis B virus (HBV) and transmitted by infected fluids, can lead serious liver damage in the infected patients. Human papillomavirus (HPV) are a group of viruses that affect the skin and the moist membranes that line the body. Furthermore, there remain other STDs such as hepatitis A virus (HAV), herpes simplex virus 1 and 2 (HSV-1 and HSV-2), syphilis, chlamydia that have harmful effects on human health.
Prevention of STDs
All STDs have some common features that include prevalent in teenagers and young adults and more than one transmission route. Regarding the wide route of infections, improving the sense of safety and having safe sex is probably the most effective way to avoid getting infected with an STD. In addition, vaccination is another preventive mean to protect you against certain infections. What has been approved on the market for recent years is the HPV and HBV vaccine which contribute a lot to the control of the spread of these diseases.
Our IVD antibody development services target multiple sexually transmitted infectious pathogens, including but not limited to:
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