Can serology diagnose upper genital tract Chlamydia trachomatis infection? Studies on women with pelvic pain, with or without chlamydial plasmid DNA in endometrial biopsy tissue

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 14-19

  Chernesky, Max ^a   Luinstra, Kathy ^a   Sellors, John ^a   Schachter, Julius ^b   Moncada, Jeanne ^b   Caul, Owen ^c   Paul, Ian ^c   Mikaelian, Liliana ^d   Toye, Baldwin ^e   Paavonen, Jorma ^f   Mahony, James ^a  

^a ST JOSEPH S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^d Centro de Estudios Microbiologicos   (Argentina)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ENDOMETRIUM BIOPSY; FEMALE; GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOASSAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; SERODIAGNOSIS;

ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BIOPSY; CHAPERONIN 60; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; ENDOMETRIUM; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; PELVIC PAIN; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROLOGIC TESTS;

EID: 0031963248     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007435-199801000-00004     Document Type: Article

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