RESULTS: Nine of the 15 women (60%) with salpingitis had positive results when tested with the polymerase chain reaction for cervical Chlamydia trachomatis. Only two of these women (13%), both of whom had positive results when tested with the polymerase chain reaction, had cultures that were...
Chlamydia trachomatis is an intracellular organism that produces glycogen-positive intracytoplasmic inclusions (elementary bodies). C. trachomatis causes ocular and urogenital disease in humans. However, at least one strain historically referred to as the ‘Nigg agent’ after Clara Nigg, is most recently...
C. trachomatisis the etiological agent of trachoma, which affects approximately 500 million people in developing countries. Recently it became evident that in industrialised Western nations certain strains ofC. trachomatisare the most common cause of sexually transmitted infections such as non-gonoccocal ...
trachomatis strains, which would entail the removal of a huge portion of the sequences being analyzed. Evolutionary γ-distance We used a non-phylogenetic method for estimating the evolu- tionary distance between each pair of homologous DNA sequences, which is given by the parameter γ [34]: ...
trachomatis strains, which would entail the removal of a huge portion of the sequences being analyzed. Evolutionary γ-distance We used a non-phylogenetic method for estimating the evolu- tionary distance between each pair of homologous DNA sequences, which is given by the pa...
trachomatis positive samples are particularly attractive. An example of this was recently described [18]; the approach was based on an antibody-based enrichment step targeting intact C. trachomatis cells followed by whole genome amplification of the total amount of DNA within the sample. The method...
Chlamydia trachomatis, the bacteria that causes chlamydia, most often spreads through unprotected vaginal, oral, or anal sex. You get it from the semen or vaginal fluid of an infected person. It can also pass from an infected person to another through genital contact, even if there’s no sex...
Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) increases its plasmid numbers when stressed, as occurs in clinical trachoma samples. Most CT tests target the plasmid to increase the test sensitivity, but some only target the chromosome. We investigated clinical urogenital samples for total plasmid copy numbers to assess ...
trachomatis) positive chlamydial EBs were counted. Apoptosis assay To induce apoptosis in human epithelial cells, confluent HEp-2 cells were incubated in serum-free medium containing 2.5 µm staurosporine at 37 C for up to 16 h. To test for induction of apoptosis by rCPn0473, cells ...
The association between Chlamydia trachomatis-positive serology and miscarriage remained significant after adjustment for age, origin, education level, and number of sexual partners (OR 2.3, 95% CI 1.1–4.9). Chlamydia trachomatis DNA was more frequently amplified from products of conception or placenta...