IgM Chlamydia Trachomatis Antibodies in Cases of Melasma

Sawhney, Mps; Batra, RB

doi:10.1016/s0377-1237(05)80063-2

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“…This suggests that deep seated pelvic infection with C trachomatis may be an important cause of photosensitivity in women. Melasma has been associated with chronic pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) due to C trachomatis [4,5], which is in agreement with this study.…”

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confidence: 91%

“…We found chronic pelvic inflammatory disease in almost 60% of cases of melasma [4], suggesting that melasma may be due to photosensitivity to C trachomatis in clinical or sub clinical chronic genitourinary infection in a large proportion of cases. This was later confirmed by the presence of antichlamydia IgM antibodies in significant number of patients of melasma [5]. Photosensitivity (PS), polymorphic light eruptions (PLE), rosacea, chronic actinic dermatitis (CAD), actinic prurigo (AP) like photosensitive skin diseases, the exact cause for which is not known, may be precipitated by C trachomatis infection and hence this study was done.…”

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Chlamydia trachomatis Infection and Photosensitive Dermatoses

Sawhney

Arora

Khetrapal³

2008

Medical Journal Armed Forces India

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Chlamydia trachomatis Infection and Photosensitive Dermatoses

Sawhney

Arora

Khetrapal³

2008

Medical Journal Armed Forces India

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“…C. pneumoniae IgG antibody has been found to be independently associated with migraine in Indian patients [30]. C. trachomatis has been proposed to play a role in photosensitive dermatoses and melasma, with variable positivity for IgA, IgM and IgG antibodies to C. trachomatis [31,32].…”

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Chlamydia: The Secret Enemy from the Past to Present, and Future

Misra¹,

Pundir²

2023

Infectious Diseases

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Chlamydia was discovered in 1907 by Halberstaedter and Von Prowazek in conjunctival scrapings from an experimentally infected orangutan. Once being thought of as symbiont in plant like unicellular amoebae to intracellular parasites of vertebrates to viruses to currently as obligate intracellular bacteriae. Chlamydia is able to survive indefinitely as viable but non cultivable altered forms being a bacteria. It’s a supremely adaptable microorganism as seen with the emergence of it’s Swedish New variant (nvCT) in 2006, which was not a product of mutation or recombination but due to losing a short segment of DNA from it’s plasmid. The disease expression of Chlamydia is due to the interplay between the differences in the plasticity zone of it’s genome and the host factors. Despite the recombination of genes and emergence of new variants there is no evidence of circulating genomic resistance in Chlamydia trachomatis. The ‘seek and treat’ Chlamydia control strategy shortens the genital infection yet it’s rising sequelae of tubal infertility, the evidence of neoplastic change in cervix via modulation of caveolin-1 and c-myc RNA expression and it’s under investigated role in pathogenesis of atherosclerosis and ischemic heart disease is a sign of how exponentially this organism is evolving.

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IgM Chlamydia Trachomatis Antibodies in Cases of Melasma

Cited by 2 publications

References 15 publications

Chlamydia trachomatis Infection and Photosensitive Dermatoses

Chlamydia trachomatis Infection and Photosensitive Dermatoses

Chlamydia: The Secret Enemy from the Past to Present, and Future

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