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Sex[b]triggered[/b] is not the same things as sexually [b]transmitted[/b]. The difference matters, especially for public health. The former does not have carriers that can be treated to stop spread, because there is no spread. It's not an infectious microbe that moves from person to person.

Sex [b]triggered[/b] infections are infections that are more prone to develop after sex, but are not being transmitted from another infected person. They are being triggered by sex with someone who is not themselves infected, but for whom interaction with makes changes in the first person that increases likelihood of infection.

Sex triggered UTI is a classic case -- generally, it's the person's own fecal bacteria that populate in the urinary system, whether because of very fluid-filled and vigorous sex that wicks bacteria from the anus, or from something like vaginal sex after anal sex with the penis carrying the bacteria. HOWEVER, treating the man in this example with antibiotics doesn't prevent anything, because he himself is not actually infected. There is no transmission, just a trigger.

Sexually [b]transmitted[/b] infections are when an person infected with a microbe has sex with another person, and that sexual contact moves the infection from the one person to the other. Gonorrhea is a classic example.

In the case of actual [b]transmission[/i], treating the infected partner prevents the spread, because once treated, the microbe cannot move from one person to the other.[/quote]

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