Serological Tests for Chlamydia trachomatis Infections
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Serological tests for Chlamydia trachomatis infections.
In her review of the current methods of laboratory diagnosis of Chlamydia trachomatis infections, Black (1) reported that serologic tests were generally not useful in the diagnosis of genital tract infection caused by C. trachomatis and that the presence of immunoglobulin M (IgM) antibodies was an unreliable marker of acute infection in adolescents and adults. Chlamydial infections during pregn...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Microbiology Reviews
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0893-8512,1098-6618
DOI: 10.1128/cmr.11.1.228