AIMS To evaluate the relation between Chlamydia trachomatis infection and stillbirth, placental tissue was studied for the presence of C trachomatis. METHODS Paraffin wax embedded placental tissue of a stillbirth fetus, born at the 36th week of gestation to a 21 year old mother with high serum antibody titres to C trachomatis immunotypes during pregnancy and who was culture positive to C trac...

Screening for Chlamydia trachomatis infection in men has traditionally been limited to men who present with urethral symptoms, thereby limiting the detection of asymptomatic chlamydia infection in men. In order to effectively screen both symptomatic and asymptomatic men, we evaluated a newly developed polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay, Amplicor C. trachomatis, from Roche Molecular Systems f...

Chlamydia cause enteritis in young pigs and calves, and granulomas within intestinal lymphatics. Recently we called attention to the lymphangitis and lymphatic obstruction that occurs in Crohn’s disease. We searched resected tissues from patients for evidence of chlamydia and sera for evidence of previous exposure to chlamydia. Immunohistochemistry and real-time PCR were employed to seek chlamy...

Background The goal of the study was to evaluate the prevalence of antichlamydia antibody in different subgroups of infertile women. MaterialsAndMethods The study was performed on 300 women admitted to a university-based clinic.The antichlamydia antibody was assayed via ELISA method. Results Positive titer was reported in 32.3 percent of the population under study. Statistically significant dif...

Laboratory confirmation of chlamydial antigen in clinically suspected cases of chlamydial eye infections is important, as similar clinical picture can be presented by different infective or noninfective causes. We retrospectively analyzed the presence of Chlamydia trachomatis antigen in 690 clinically suspected patients over the last 8 years (2009-2016). The chlamydial antigen was detected usin...

background : as prenatal screening for sexually transmitted infections and treatment of infected pregnant women is not routinely performed in iran and prevalence of two sexually transmitted pathogens, chlamydia trachomatis and mycoplasma genitalium , in sabzevar (east of iran) is unknown, we decided to perform this prospective study. methods : one hundred ninety-six urine specimens of pregnant ...

Worldwide Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae are two of the most prevalent sexually transmitted pathogens. The present study aimed to estimate the prevalence of Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae infection in women from Taif, western region, KSA. A polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method was carried using DNA extracted from 144 female urine samples. Primer pairs specifi...

Synovial fluid cells from 12 patients with reactive arthritis (ReA) triggered by Chlamydia trachomatis were studied for the presence of Chlamydia DNA using the ligase chain reaction (LCR) LCx (Abbott) and the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) Amplicor (Roche). In addition, peripheral blood leucocytes from 11 of these patients were analysed by LCR. As controls, seven patients with newly diagnosed ...

Background and Objective: In Iran, prenatal Chlamydia and gonorrhea screening of pregnant women and neonatal eye prophylaxis are not routine practice. The present research aimed to identify bacterial agents of neonatal conjunctivitis. Materials & Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted on all babies born over a period from April 2007 to April 2008 in Hajar Hospital of Shahrekor...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE Serological evidences suggested an association between Chlamydia pneumoniae infection and coronary heart disease (CHD). Efficacy of available serological tests for detection of C. pneumoniae antibody has been debated. The present study was carried-out to assess the efficacy of Immunocomb Chlamydia bivalent IgG assay vis-à-vis micro immunofluorescence (MIF) test in detecti...