Introduction: Infertility has been known to cause serious social and emotional problems worldwide. Besides other causes of female infertility, the role reproductive tract infection is well recognized. Lower genital infection, be it symptomatic or asymptomatic, need diagnosed treated properly. In view this our study was done. Aim & Objectives: To evaluate bacteriological profile lower in inf...

The commercial COBAS Amplicor CT/NG test (Roche Diagnostic Systems, Meylan, France) is a sensitive and specific method for detection of Chlamydia trachomatis infections. This test currently consists of using a nucleic acid amplification method to detect C. trachomatis in first-void urine specimens and in endocervical swabs collected in 2-sucrose-phosphate (2SP) transport medium. We conducted a ...

Background: This study evaluated the performance of the BD ProbeTec Chlamydia trachomatis Q (CTQ) Amplified DNA Assay on the BD Viper System with XTR Technology in a multicenter study. Methods: Specimens were collected at 7 geographically diverse clinical sites from 1538 women and men attending sexually transmitted disease, family planning, and obstetrics and gynecology clinics. There were 1465...

A clinical evaluation of the Amplicor polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay for the detection of Chlamydia trachomatis in endocervical swabs (Roche Molecular Systems, Branchburg, N.J.) is described. This new clinical system used one-step sample preparation, amplification with biotinylated cryptic plasmid primer pairs (CP24-CP27), uracil-N-glycosylase (AmpErase), and a microtiter format for ampl...

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...

OBJECTIVE To compare the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) Amplicor Chlamydia trachomatis test with the cell culture method, in diagnosing urogenital chlamydial infections. SUBJECTS 439 patients (327 women and 112 men) attending one STD clinic and Family Planning and Gynaecological Clinics in Lisbon, Portugal, between November 1993 and March 1994. METHODS In women, two endocervical swab sampl...

The study was undertaken to determine the prevalence of chlamydial genital infection in sexually active, urban adolescent females 15-19 years; to identify behavioral, demographic, and clinical factors associated with chlamydial infections; and to develop criteria for potential screening strategies. 500 adolescent women, median age 17.7 years, who visited gynecological outpatient clinic in Child...