[Significance and problems of Chlamydia detection in urologic patients].
Chlamydiae represent the aetiological agent in non-gonococcal urethritis in about 50% of the cases, but it is also increasingly recognized that Chlamydia trachomatis can cause prostatitis or epididymitis. The introduction of methods for the direct detection of chlamydia in clinical materials allows early diagnosis and therefore effective antibiotic therapy. The new tests however give both false positive and false negative results.
D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal; D001431:Bacteriological Techniques; D002690:Chlamydia Infections / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002692:Chlamydia trachomatis / Q000276:immunology; D004823:Epididymitis / Q000175:diagnosis; D005260:Female; D005455:Fluorescent Antibody Technique; D006801:Humans; D007124:Immunoenzyme Techniques; D007248:Infertility, Male / Q000175:diagnosis; D008297:Male; D011472:Prostatitis / Q000175:diagnosis; D012749:Sexually Transmitted Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014526:Urethritis / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002575:Uterine Cervicitis / Q000175:diagnosis
D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal
Bedeutung und Problematik des Chlamydiennachweises bei urologischen Patienten.