PURPOSE Our purpose was to conduct a screening test for urethritis or cervicitis as a sexually transmitted disease (STD) by using multiplex polymerase chain reaction(PCR) and to determine the prevalence of Chlamydia trachomatis, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Mycoplasma genitalium, Ureaplasma urealyticum, Mycoplasma hominis, and Trichomonas vaginalis in asymptomatic people. MATERIALS AND METHODS From...

Two cases of tuberculous cervicitis are presented. The presence in cervical smears of both epithelioid and Langhans' giant cells, which are described, should raise a strong suspicion of tuberculosis.

Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) is a frequent condition of young women, often resulting in reproductive morbidity. Although Neisseria gonorrhoeae and/or Chlamydia trachomatis are/is recovered from approximately a third to a half of women with PID, the etiologic agent is often unidentified. We need PCR to test for M genitalium among a pilot sample of 50 women with nongonococcal, nonchlamydial ...

OBJECTIVES To determine the usefulness of endocervical discharge opacity as a risk indicator for chlamydial infection in relation to two acknowledged visual indicators--yellow endocervical discharge and easily induced mucosal bleeding of the cervix. METHODS Women from two family planning clinics, a therapeutic abortion clinic, and a university student health clinic (n = 1418 total) consented ...

Introduction Infectious and inflammatory diseases of the lower genitalia in women of reproductive age continue to occupy one of the leading places in the overall structure of gynecological morbidity, their frequency varies between 65-80% and does not tend to decrease. Various surgical interventions, traumas, abortions, early sexual debut contribute to a change in the microbiocenosis of the vagi...