Chlamydia trachomatis is the most commonly reported infectious disease in United States and causes important reproductive morbidity women. The Centers for Disease Control Prevention have recommended routine screening of sexually active women under age 25 but not among men. Consequently, untested untreated men may serve as a reservoir infection Despite three decades women, chlamydia prevalence h...

PURPOSE Little is known about the susceptibility of posterior segment tissues, particularly the human retinal pigment epithelium (hRPE), to Chlamydia trachomatis. The purpose of the study was to investigate the possibility of infecting the hRPE with Chlamydia trachomatis, and to examine the infectivity of different Chlamydia trachomatis clinical isolates for hRPE cells and the hRPE cell respons...

Introduction: Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) is the most common cause of non-gonococcal urethritis. Prevalence CT infections in Sri Lanka was 17.1% females 2015. Real-time PCR for diagnostic testing started 2015 but screening programmes have not been initiated due to high cost. The aim this study determine genotypes patients from Colombo, since genotypic distribution known.Methods: Stored first voi...

background: chlamydia trachomatis is the etiology of most of sexually transmitted diseases. colonization of c. trachomatis in the genital tract during early gestation has been associated with preterm birth, and preterm premature rupture of the membranes. the role of c. trachomatis on spontaneous abortion has not yet been proved completely. the aim of this study was to evaluate the frequency of ...

A multicenter clinical study was conducted to evaluate the performance characteristics of the Abbott RealTime CT/NG assay, a multiplex real-time PCR assay, for simultaneous detection of Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae. The specimens were collected from a total of 3,832 male and female subjects at 16 geographically diverse sites. Specimens included male and female urine samples, ...

results: in total, 8.5% of all subjects were positive (11% of symptomatic and 6% of asymptomatic men). statistical analysis revealed an association between condom usage as a variable and infection in asymptomatic group (p ≤ 0.05). conclusions: findings of this study show that chlamydial infection screening especially in males with urogenital symptoms is necessary (at least in tehran) and we rec...

OBJECTIVE Evaluation of prevalence and risk factors of Chlamydia trachomatis infections in an outpatient obstetric and gynaecological population. METHODS A prospective, observational study was performed at an inner city hospital in The Hague, Netherlands. 1368 women attending the outpatient department of obstetrics and gynaecology participated in the study. For detection of C trachomatis infe...

There are currently no commercially available molecular assays for the detection of Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae in rectal swabs with regulatory approval. We compared the Cepheid GeneXpert CT/NG assay with the GenProbe Aptima Combo2 assay, using 409 rectal swabs. Using Aptima as the gold standard, the sensitivity, specificity, and positive and negative predictive values of Ge...

Species closely related to the human pathogen Chlamydia trachomatis (Ct) have recently been found to cause zoonotic infections, posing a public health threat especially in the case of tetracycline resistant Chlamydia suis (Cs) strains. These strains acquired a tet(C)-containing cassette via horizontal gene transfer (HGT). Genomes of 11 Cs strains from various tissues were sequenced to reconstru...

Background: Chlamydia trachomatis infection is reported as the commonest cause of tubal and pelvic by proxy, damage female infertility. Serotypes D-K are known to sexually transmitted genital tract neonatal infection. Testing for presence has been revolutionized development monoclonal antibodies. This study sought determine prevalence among infertile women at University College Hospital Ibadan ...