The role of chlamydia genus-specific and species-specific IgG antibody testing in predicting tubal disease in subfertile women

Human Reproduction

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1380-1384

  den Hartog, Jed E ^a   Land, J A ^a   Stassen, F R M ^a   Slobbe van Drunen, M E P ^a   Kessels, A G H ^a   Bruggeman, C A ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chlamydia; Genus specific antibodies; Screening; Species specific antibodies; Tubal factor fertility

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CHLAMYDOPHILA PSITTACI; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; FEMALE INFERTILITY; GENUS; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; LAPAROSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREDICTION; SCREENING TEST; SEROLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SUBFERTILITY; UTERINE TUBE DISEASE;

CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; FELIS CATUS;

EID: 3042590639     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/deh267     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Bourke SJ, Carrington D, Frew CE, McSharry CP and Boyd G (1992) A comparison of the seroepidemiology of chlamydial infection in pigeon fanciers and farmers in the U.K. J Infect 25(Suppl 1),91-98.
2. Caldwell HD and Hitchcock PJ (1984) Monoclonal antibody against a genus-specific antigen of Chlamydia species: location of the epitope on chlamydial lipopolysaccharide. Infect Immun 44,306-314.
3. Collins JA, Burrows EA and Willan AR (1995) The prognosis for live birth among untreated infertile couples. Fertil Steril 64,22-28.
4. Efron B and Tibshiram RJ (1993) An Introduction to the Bootstrap. Chapman & Hall, New York, pp. 224-227.
5. Ekman MR, Leinonen M, Syrjälä H, Linnanmäki E, Kujala P and Saikku P (1993) Evaluation of serological methods in the diagnosis of Chlamydia pneumoniae pneumonia during an epidemic in Finland. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis 12,756-760.
6. Freidank HM, Clad A, Herr AS, Wiedmann-Al-Ahmad M and Jung B (1995) Immune response to Chlamydia trachomatis heat-shock protein in infertile female patients and influence of Chlamydia pneumoniae antibodies. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis 14,1063-1069.
7. Gérard HC, Branigan PJ, Balsara GR, Heath C, Minassian SS and Hudson AP (1998) Viability of Chlamydia trachomatis in fallopian tubes of patients with ectopic pregnancy. Fertil Steril 70,945-948.
8. Gijsen AP, Land JA, Goossens VJ, Leffers P, Bruggeman CA and Evers JLH (2001) Chlamydia pneumoniae and screening for tubal factor subfertility. Hum Reprod 16,487-491.
9. Grayston JT, Wang SP, Yeh LJ and Kuo CC (1985) Importance of reinfection in the pathogenesis of trachoma. Rev Infect Dis 7,717-725.
10. Hahn DL, Dodge RW and Golubjatnikov R (1991) Association of Chlamydia pneumoniae (strain TWAR) infection with wheezing, asthmatic bronchitis, and adult-onset asthma. J Am Med Assoc 266,225-230.
11. Karvonen M. Tuomilehto J, Pitkäniemi J, Naukkarinen A and Saikku P (1994) Chlamydia pneumoniae IgG antibody prevalence in south-westem and eastern Finland in 1982 and 1987. Int J Epidemiol 23,176-184.
12. Kikuta LC, Puolakkainen M, Kuo CC and Campbell LA (1991) Isolation and sequence analysis of the Chlamydia pneumoniae GroE operon. Infect Immun 59,4665-4669.
13. Kinnunen A, Molander P, Morrison R, Lehtinen M, Karttunen R, Tiitinen A, Paavonen J and Surcel HM (2002) Chlamydial heat shock protein 60-specific T cells in inflamed salpingeal tissue. Fertil Steril 77,162-166.
14. Land JA, Evers JLH and Goossens VJ (1998) How to use Chlamydia antibody testing in subfertility patients. Hum Reprod 13,1094-1098.
15. Land JA, Gijsen AP, Kessels AGH, Slobbe MEP and Bruggeman CA (2003) Performance of five serological chlamydia antibody tests in subfertile women. Hum Reprod 18,2621-2627.
16. Mol BWJ, Dijkman B, Wertheim P, Lijmer J, Van der Veen F and Bossuyt PMM (1997) The accuracy of serum chlamydial antibodies in the diagnosis of tubal pathology: a meta-analysis. Fertil Steril 67,1031-1037.
17. Moss TR, Darougar S, Woodland RM, Nathan M, Dines RJ and Cathrine V (1993) Antibodies to Chlamydia species in patients attending a genitourinary clinic and the impact of antibodies to C. pneumoniae and C. psittaci on the sensitivity and the specificity of C. trachomatis serology tests. Sex Transm Dis 20,61-65.
18. Patton DL, Sweeney YT and Kuo CC (1994) Demonstration of delayed hypersensitivity in Chlamydia trachomatis salpingitis in monkeys: a pathogenic mechanism of tubal damage. J Infect Dis 169,680-683.
19. Punnonen R, Terho P, Nikkanen V and Meurman O (1979) Chlamydial serology in infertile women by immunofluorescence. Fertil Steril 31,656-659.
20. Saikku P, Mattila K, Nieminen MS, Huttunen JK, Leinonen M, Ekman MR, Mäkelä PH and Valtonen V (1988) Serological evidence of an association of a novel Chlamydia, TWAR, with chronic coronary heart disease and acute myocardial infarction. Lancet 2,983-986.
21. Tuuminen T, Palomäki P and Paavonen J (2000) The use of serologic tests for the diagnosis of chlamydial infections. J Microbiol Meth 42,265-279.
22. Wick G, Perschinka H and Millonig G (2001) Atherosclerosis as an autoimmune disease: an update. Trends Immunol 22,665-669.
23. Wong YK, Sueur JM, Fall CHD, Orfila J and Ward ME (1999) The species specificity of the microimmunofluorescence antibody test and comparisons with a time resolved fluoroscopic immunoassay for measuring IgG antibodies against Chlamydia pneumoniae. J Clin Pathol 52,99-102.