Antigen specific serum antibody response to Chlamydia trachomatis in patients with acute pelvic inflammatory disease.
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Antigen specific serum antibody response to Chlamydia trachomatis in patients with acute pelvic inflammatory disease.
Sera from 35 patients with acute pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) with and without Chlamydia trachomatis confirmed by culture and sera from 19 control patients with neither evidence of pelvic infection nor C trachomatis infection were studied for the presence of serum IgG, IgA, and IgM antibodies to C trachomatis using enzyme immunoassay (EIA) and immunoblotting techniques. There was no correl...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Pathology
سال: 1990
ISSN: 0021-9746
DOI: 10.1136/jcp.43.9.758