Chlamydiae are intracellular, gram-negative, and prokaryotic microorganisms. Capable of causing disease in many mammalian avian species, there three types that cause humans: Chlamydia trachomatis, pneumoniae, psittaci. Among the chlamydia C. trachomatis is most studied encountered type because it a leading trachoma sexually transmitted diseases. known pathogen genital tract, can also be routine...

Vaccination strategies for protection against sexually transmitted diseases are lacking due to an incomplete understanding of genital tract T cell responses. This thesis dissects the generation of T helper subsets, including the recently discovered Th17 subset, during genital tract infection with a common sexually transmitted pathogen, Chlamydia trachomatis, and addresses vaccine requirements f...

bovine genital campylobacteriosis is one of the most economically important diseases of dairy cattleresulting in lowered fertility, embryo mortality and abortion, repeated returns to service, reduced pregnancyrates and extended calving intervals. while the occurrence of repeat breeding syndrome and abortions arereported from many iranian dairy cattle farms, little information is available regar...

BACKGROUND Female genital mutilation (FGM) is commonly practiced mainly in a belt reaching from East to West Africa north of the equator. The practice is known across socio-economic classes and among different ethnic, religious, and cultural groups. Few studies have been appropriately designed to measure the health effects of FGM. However, the outcome of FGM on intersex individuals has never be...

Background. The aim of this study was to identify overall sexually transmitted diseases (STD) burden in HIV infected patients and determine compliance with sexual health screening and treatment based on CDC 2010 Guideline in our HIV clinic. Methods. This is a retrospective cohort study of all adult patients attending at least 2 visits at the University of Kansas Medical Center outpatient infect...

Depo-provera, a long-acting progestational formulation, is widely used to facilitate infection of sexually transmitted diseases in animal models. We have previously reported that hormone treatments change susceptibility and immune responses to genital tract infections. In this study we compared the changes in susceptibility of mice to genital herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) after Depo-prove...

Since the first report of Dienes and Edsall (1937), a number of communications have recorded the isolation of pleuropneumonia-like organisms (PPLO) from the genital tract of the human female, especially in association with inflammatory diseases such as bartholinitis, pelvic abscess, and salpingitis (Melen and Odeblad, 195 1; Randall, Stein, and Ayres, 1950; Dienes, Ropes, Smith, Madoff, and Bau...

OBJECTIVE To measure changes in female sexual behaviour, including condom use, and their relationship with the incidence of sexually transmitted and other genital diseases in women during the decade 1982-92. DESIGN A prospective series of cross-sectional surveys of sexual behaviour reported by a standardised self-administered questionnaire in new patients who presented for screening and diagn...

Since the first report of Dienes and Edsall (1937), a number of communications have recorded the isolation of pleuropneumonia-like organisms (PPLO) from the genital tract of the human female, especially in association with inflammatory diseases such as bartholinitis, pelvic abscess, and salpingitis (Melen and Odeblad, 195 1; Randall, Stein, and Ayres, 1950; Dienes, Ropes, Smith, Madoff, and Bau...

BACKGROUND Data on the psychosocial burden of human papillomavirus (HPV)-related diseases other than cervical cancer are scarce. The objectives of this study were to measure and compare the psychosocial burden and the impact on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of HPV-related lower genital tract diseases and genital warts (GW) using several generic and disease-specific instruments. METHO...