To determine whether Chlamydia trachomatis infection is consistently associated with an increased risk of invasive cervical carcinoma (ICC) after accounting for the strong effect of human papillomavirus (HPV) infection, a case-control study of 1,238 cases of ICC and 1,100 control women from 7 countries was carried out (hospital-based studies in Thailand, the Philippines, Morocco, Peru, Brazil a...

BACKGROUND The focus of Chlamydia trachomatis screening and testing lies more on women than on men. The study aim was to establish by systematic review the prevalence of urogenital Chlamydia trachomatis infection in men and women in the general population. METHODS Electronic databases and reference lists were searched from 2000 to 2013 using the key words "Chlamydia trachomatis", "population-...

Natural killer (NK) activity is increased in both spleen and lung early in pulmonary infection by murine Chlamydia trachomatis in both susceptible nude and resistant heterozygous (nu/+) mice. Ablation of the rise in NK activity by giving the mice antiasialo GM-1 antibody or stimulation of NK activity by immunomodulators did not affect quantitative tissue counts of the mouse pneumonitis biovar o...

Résumé Introduction: Les infections sexuellement transmissibles sévissent toujours dans les pays en voie de développement et particulièrement au Cameroun. Le but de notre étude est de déterminer la distribution des infections sexuellement transmissibles suivantes: l’hépatite virale B, le Chlamydia trachomatis et de la syphilis dans une population de femmes venant consulter spontanément à l’Hôpi...

Aim of present study was to determine prevalence of genital Chlamydia trachomatis in women of reproductive age group using PCR on urine specimen. First void 30 ml urine specimen from 160 women attending gynaecology OPD at KGMU, Lucknow were subjected to DNA extraction and PCR. 90 women had symptoms suggestive of genital tract infection (cases) and remaining 70 women were symptom free and served...

A total of 87 cervical specimens of unselected female sex workers in massage parlors were tested by an enzyme amplified immunoassay IDEIA Chlamydia test and cell culture for the presence of Chlamydia trachomatis. The prevalence of C. trachomatis was 28 (32%) cases and 34 (39%) cases by the cell culture and the IDEIA Chlamydia test respectively. The IDEIA Chlamydia test demonstrated the sensitiv...

BACKGROUND Genital Chlamydia infection (GCI) and the associated pathologies have been implicated in tubal infertility. Though the actual pathologic mechanisms are still uncertain, oxidative stress and other factors have been implicated. The purpose of the study was to determine the possible contribution of female reproductive hormones and biomarkers of oxidative stress in genital Chlamydial inf...

Background: There is controversy over the role of asymptomatic genital tract infection of Chlamydia trachomatis (C. trachomatis) in the etiology of male infertility. Aim of the Study: Detection of chlamydia antibodies in seminal plasma of infertile men and its effect on semen parameters. patients and Methods : Semen samples were collected from 144 infertile male, 35 normal fertile male ,seminal...

Background: The incidence of anti-chlamydia trachomatis immunoglobulins in serninal plasma and serum of infertile men was detected by microimmuno fluorscence (MIF) test .The main objective was to determine and compare the performance of seminal plasma and serum in the diagnosis of chlamydia trachomatis genital infection in Iraqi infertile men. Patients and Method: Seminal fluid and blood sample...

BACKGROUND For a long time, infertility has been one of the most sequels in medical sciences with microbial agents as one group of its causes. The possible etiological role of Chlamydia trachomatis in infertility was suggested years ago, but it has not yet been proved completely. To decrease the severe involvements of C. trachomatis infections, screening by efficient diagnostic methods are nece...