TY - JOUR
T1 - Persistence of chlamydia trachomatis in the endometrium and peritoneal fluid of patients with infertility but negative cervical culture
AU - Zesati, Jesús Roberto Villagrana
AU - Hurtado, Marcela López
AU - Salazar, Verónica R.Flores
AU - de Haro Cruz, María J.
AU - Guerra, Marcos R.Escobedo
AU - Infante, Fernando M.Guerra
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Background: Chlamydia trachomatis infection is considered a public health problem due to its high prevalence, and because is asymptomatic in 70% of women and provokes reproductive sequelae when it is not detected and treated timely. Objective: To search for C. trachomatis in endometrium and peritoneal fluid of infertile women without detection of this pathogen in cervical secretions. Patients and method: A retrospective and cross-sectional study was done in 38 patients with infertility only 18 showed peritoneal fluid infection and/or endometrial infection, eight of them were negative for the amplificated product of 129-bp from CT ompA gene in cervical secretions. Laparoscopic data showed that five of them had pelvic inflammatory disease. Conclusion: The non-detection of Chlamydia trachomatis in endocervix does not reflect what happens in the upper genital tract, that's why we need to do a deliberate search of infection by this pathogen in endometrium of suspected women with infertility.
AB - Background: Chlamydia trachomatis infection is considered a public health problem due to its high prevalence, and because is asymptomatic in 70% of women and provokes reproductive sequelae when it is not detected and treated timely. Objective: To search for C. trachomatis in endometrium and peritoneal fluid of infertile women without detection of this pathogen in cervical secretions. Patients and method: A retrospective and cross-sectional study was done in 38 patients with infertility only 18 showed peritoneal fluid infection and/or endometrial infection, eight of them were negative for the amplificated product of 129-bp from CT ompA gene in cervical secretions. Laparoscopic data showed that five of them had pelvic inflammatory disease. Conclusion: The non-detection of Chlamydia trachomatis in endocervix does not reflect what happens in the upper genital tract, that's why we need to do a deliberate search of infection by this pathogen in endometrium of suspected women with infertility.
KW - Chlamydia trachomatis
KW - Endocervical infection
KW - Endometrium infection
KW - Peritoneal fluid infection
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84873934262&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Artículo
SN - 0300-9041
VL - 81
SP - 23
EP - 28
JO - Ginecologia y Obstetricia de Mexico
JF - Ginecologia y Obstetricia de Mexico
IS - 1
ER -