Infection by Bedsoniae and the Possibility of Spurious Isolation: 2. Genital Infection, Disease of the Eye, Reiter's Disease

Dunlop, E. M. C.; Freedman, Arnold S.; Garland, Jennifer; Harper, Ian; Jones, Barrie R.; Race, John W.; Toit, M.S. du; Treharne, J D

doi:10.1016/0002-9394(67)94085-8

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“…Dunlop et al (1967) suggested that salpingitis occurs in such women. The patients with salpingitis studied, apart from a group of patients with classical lymphogranuloma venereum and infants with chiamydial pneumonia (Beem and Saxon, 1977), have had the highest levels of antibody of any group of patients with proved C. trachomatis infection.…”

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Antibodies to Chlamydia trachomatis in acute salpingitis.

Treharne¹,

Ripa²,

Mårdh³

et al. 1979

Sexually Transmitted Infections

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SUMMARY Recent isolation studies have shown Chlamydia trachomatis to be an important aetiological agent in acute salpingitis in women. The present serological study indicates that C. trachomatis is the probable aetiological agent in two-thirds of 143 women with pelvic inflammatory disease (PID). In general, high levels of chlamydial antibody were found in sera and fluids aspirated from the pouch of Douglas and such antibody titres were shown to correlate with the severity of clinically graded tubal inflammation.

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Antibodies to Chlamydia trachomatis in acute salpingitis.

Treharne¹,

Ripa²,

Mårdh³

et al. 1979

Sexually Transmitted Infections

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“…The yolk-sac technique, however, is now known to be less sensitive than cell culture for Chlamydia isolation (Gordon, Dressler, and Quan, 1967;Gordon, Harper, Quan, Treharne, Dwyer, and Garland, 1969). Other studies have been made of special groups: women in whom chlamydial ocular disease was known to be present or who produced offspring with chlamydial ocular disease (Dunlop and others, 1964;Dunlop, Freedman, Garland, Harper, Jones, Race, du Toit, and Treharne, 1967), and women who were known to be sexual contacts of men with NSU (Dunlop and others, 1972;Oriel and others, 1972). The incidence of genital chlamydial infection in other groups is not known.…”

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Chlamydial infections of the cervix.

Oriel¹,

Powis²,

Reeve³

et al. 1974

Sexually Transmitted Infections

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A major problem in the control of non-specific genital infection (NSGI) (Reeve, Gerloff, Casper, Philip, Oriel, and Powis, 1974). Although direct proof cannot be obtained in the absence of experiments using human Received for publication August 7, 1973 volunteers, most observers believe that Chlamydia are pathogenic in the male urethra. Women who are sexual contacts of men with NSU often harbour the organisms in the cervix. Primary (source) contacts of these men almost invariably have a demonstrable chlamydial infection; secondary contacts are less often infected (Oriel and others, 1972). Alexander (1973) has observed that many women with chlamydial infection show clinical evidence of cervical inflammation, although Dunlop, Jones, and AlHussaini (1964) believe that a characteristic sign is the presence of follicles and other fine changes in cervical structure visible only with the operating microscope. Like men, women with genital chlamydial infection often show an immunological response (Reeve and others, 1974). If Chlamydia is accepted as a cause of NSU, its identification in a woman might be taken to indicate that she has NSGI requiring treatment.

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“…The chlamydial disease of the eye of a baby born with that infection demonstrates the pathogenicity of the TRIC agent that it has acquired from its mother's genital tract; moreover, the mother usually has characteristic changes in the cervix and the father usually has NSU (Dunlop, Freedman, Garland, Harper, Jones, Race, du Toit, and Treharne, 1967). Infection of the eye with isolates of chlamydia has been produced many times in man since the initial experiments reported by Collier and Sowa (1958) and by Collier, Duke-Elder, and Jones (1958).…”

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