The Usefulness of Screaning for Chlamydial Trachomatis Infection with Cervical Mucus Leukocyte Esterase

Abstract

Cervical mucus LET is a simple, cost effective screening test, with promising accuracy, for Ct cervical infection among women with inflammatory cervico-vaginal smears.

Is there a correlation between vaginal chlamydia infection and cervical smear abnormalities? A community‐based study in the Al‐Ain district, United Arab Emirates

“…To our knowledge, there have been few reports on the prevalence of cervical abnormalities or CT infection, and our literature search did not reveal any reports from this part of the world that considered the correlation between the two. In this study, Clearview kits were used to determine the presence of chlamydia infection, while other studies used cervical mucus leukoestrase; this is a useful screening method but still needs to be tested in randomized studies and compared with other available methods 13 . In the present study, the proportion of abnormal smears was 1.5%, which is much lower than the reported prevalence of abnormal smears in the relevant populations in Europe 14 and the USA 15 .…”