Evaluation of serological tests for screening of chlamydial eye diseases

In Vivo

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 235-237

  Numazaki, Kei ^a   Chiba, Shunzo ^a   Aoki, Koki ^b  

^a SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Aoki Eye Clinic   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chlamydia trachomatis; Inclusion conjunctivitis; Serological test; Trachoma

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN A ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CONJUNCTIVITIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EYE DISEASE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; SERODIAGNOSIS; TRACHOMA;

EID: 0032808973     PISSN: 0258851X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. Garland SM, Malatt A, Tabrizi S, et al: Chlamydia trachomatis conjunctivitis. Prevalence and association with genital tract infection. Med J Aust 162: 363-366, 1995.
2. Peeling RW and Brunham RC: Chlamydiae as pathogens: new species and new issues. Emerg Infect Dis 2: 2307-2320, 1996.
3. Dolin PJ, Faal H, Johnson GJ, et al: Reduction of trachoma in a sub- Saharan village in absence of a disease control programme. Lancet 349: 1511-1512, 1997.
4. Aoki K, Sato C, Hashimoto N, Chiba S and Numazaki K: Clinical and etiological studies of chlamydial conjunctivitis in Sapporo, Japan. Jpn J Ophthalmol 32: 444-449, 1988.
5. Numazaki K and Chiba S: Diagnostic value of rapid detection of Chlamydia trachomatis by using amplified enzyme immunoassay in infants with respiratory infections. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis 17: 233-234, 1993.
6. Numazaki K, Chiba S, Yamanaka T, Umetsu M and Nakao T: Pneumonia due to Chlamydia trachomatis in Japanese infants. Tohoku J exp Med 143: 413-420, 1984.
7. Numazaki K, Suzuki K, Isobe K, Nakada H, Niida Y and Chiba S: Typing of Chlamydia trachomatis from Japanese infants with pneumonia by restriction fragment length polymorphism. Scand J Infect Dis 6: 209, 1996.
8. Wagenvoort JHT, Suchland RJ and Stamm WE: Serovar distribution of urogenital Chlamydia trachomatis strains in the Netherlands. Genitourin Med 64: 159-161, 1988.
9. Isobe K, Aoki K, Itoh N, Ohno S, Takashima I and Hashimoto N: Serotyping of Chlamydia trachomatis from inclusion conjunctivitis by polymerase chain reaction and restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis. Jpn J Ophthalmol 40: 279-285, 1996.
10. Hayes LJ, Bailey RL, Mabey DCW, et al: Genotyping of Chlamydia trachomatis from a trachoma-endemic village in the Gambia by a nested polymerase chain reaction: identification of strain variants. J Infect Dis 160: 1173-1117, 1992.