Quantitative culture of Chlamydia trachomatis: relationship of inclusion-forming units produced in culture to clinical manifestations and acute inflammation in urogenital disease.

Sensitive detection and typing of Chlamydia trachomatis using nested polymerase chain reaction.

OBJECTIVES A method based on a nested polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was developed to detect and to type Chlamydia trachomatis from low titre samples by amplifying a large portion of the major outer membrane protein gene. The sensitivity of this procedure was evaluated in urogenital clinical samples in comparison with culture. SPECIMENS A series of 787 urogenital specimens, including 37 (4.7...

Genotyping of Endocervical Chlamydia trachomatis Strains and Detection of Serological Markers of Acute and Chronic Inflammation in Their Host

Prevalence of Chlamydia trachomatis Antigen and Antibody in Infertile Women in Ahwaz

Chlamydia trachomatis is an obligate intracellular bacterium which causes a wide variety of human infections such as ocular, urogenital and respiratory infections. Genital infections of women, espe-cially when repeated, give rise to many complications such as ectopic pregnancy, miscarriage and in‌fertility. Since chlamydial infections are usually asymptomatic, they progress unnoticed and produc...

P-59: Chlamydia Trachomatis Infection in Femaleswith Secondary Infertility

Background: We designed a prospective study to assess the role of Chlamydia in secondary infertility Materials and Methods: 40 women with secondary infertility and 30 term healthy pregnant women of similar age composition were studied for past and present chlamydia trachomatis infection. Women attending the outpatient department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology with complaint of secondary infertil...

Rapid screening for Chlamydia trachomatis infection by detecting α-mannosidase activity in urogenital tract specimens

BACKGROUND Chlamydia trachomatis may cause multiple different urogenital tract disorders, but current non-culture assays for rapid screening of C. trachomatis typically use immunochromatography-based methods. We established another new rapid non-culture method for detection of C. trachomatis based on the measurement of α-mannosidase enzymatic activity in urogenital tract specimens. METHOD To ...