title: Genital and neonatal chlamydial infection in a trachoma endemic area.
abstract: 85 consecutive male patients with urethritis attending the Medical Research Council outpatient department in Fajara, The Gambia, were investigated for Chlamydia trachomatis infection by intraurethral swab and culture on cycloheximide-treated McCoy cells. 7 specimens were contaminated, but C. trachomatis was isolated from 12 of the remaining 78 (15.4%)--from 8 of 59 patients with gonorrhoea (13.6%) and 4 of 19 with non-gonococcal urethritis (21%). C. trachomatis was also isolated from cervical swabs from 6 of 33 female contacts of men with urethritis (18.2%), 3 of 22 women with gynaecological symptoms (13.6%), and 6 of 87 randomly selected antenatal women (6.9%). Eye swabs were taken from 37 infants with ophthalmia neonatorum; C. trachomatis was isolated from 13 (35.1%).
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002690:Chlamydia Infections / Q000453:epidemiology*; D002692:Chlamydia trachomatis / Q000302:isolation & purification; D005260:Female; D005714:Gambia; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007232:Infant, Newborn, Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000382:microbiology; D008297:Male; D009878:Ophthalmia Neonatorum / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology; D000292:Pelvic Inflammatory Disease / Q000209:etiology*; D011247:Pregnancy; D011897:Random Allocation; D014141:Trachoma / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000382:microbiology; D014526:Urethritis / Q000209:etiology*