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Testing for sexually transmitted infections in general practice: cross-sectional study [PDF]

, 2010
Background: Primary care is an important provider of sexual health care in England. We sought to explore the extent of testing for chlamydia and HIV in general practice and its relation to associated measures of sexual health in two contrasting ...
AK Sullivan, CA McGarrigle, Catherine H Mercer, CH Mercer, Chief Medical Officer Letter, Department of Health, Department of Health, G Hughes, Gary M Brook, Health Protection Agency, Helen Maguire, JA Cassell, Jackie A Cassell, JM Pimenta, KA Fenton, Katharine E Sadler, Lorna J Sutcliffe, M Amir Islam, N Low, National Chlamydia Screening Programme Office HPA, Nicola Low, O Kufeji, Patrick J Horner, Shuja Shafi, The UK Collaborative Group for HIV and STI Surveillance, VJ Johnston, W Slater   +26 more
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The contact process with semi-infected state on the complete graph [PDF]

arXiv, 2017
In this paper we are concerned with the contact process with semi-infected state on the complete graph $C_n$ with $n$ vertices. In our model, each vertex is in one of three states that `healthy', `semi-infected' or `wholly-infected'. Only wholly-infected vertices can infect others. A healthy vertex becomes semi-infected when being infected while a semi-
arxiv  

Chlamydia trachomatis neither exerts deleterious effects on spermatozoa nor impairs male fertility

Scientific Reports, 2017
Chlamydia trachomatis is the most prevalent sexually transmitted bacterial infection. However, whether Chlamydia trachomatis has a negative impact on sperm quality and male fertility is still controversial.
Jenniffer Puerta Suarez, Leonardo R. Sanchez, Florencia C. Salazar, Hector A. Saka, Rosa Molina, Andrea Tissera, Virginia E. Rivero, Walter D. Cardona Maya, Ruben D. Motrich   +8 more
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Population based study of genital Chlamydia trachomatis prevalence and associated factors in Norway: A cross sectional study

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2012
Background The number of diagnosed cases of Chlamydia trachomatis infection has been increasing in the past years in Norway although the testing rate has been relatively stable.
Kløvstad Hilde, Grjibovski Andrej, Aavitsland Preben   +2 more
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Classifying Latent Infection States in Complex Networks [PDF]

arXiv, 2014
Algorithms for identifying the infection states of nodes in a network are crucial for understanding and containing infections. Often, however, only a relatively small set of nodes have a known infection state. Moreover, the length of time that each node has been infected is also unknown.
arxiv  

Direct fluorescent antibody assay and polymerase chain reaction for the detection of Chlamydia trachomatis in patients with vernal keratoconjunctivitis

Clinics, 2011
OBJECTIVES: To identify Chlamydia trachomatis via polymerase chain reaction and a direct fluorescent antibodyassay in patients with vernal keratoconjunctivitis while comparing the efficacies of both tests for detectingChlamydia trachomatis in these ...
Maria Cristina Nishiwaki-Dantas, Mariza Toledo de Abreu, Cynthia Mendonça de Melo, Ivana Lopes Romero, Rubens Belfort Matos Neto, Paulo Elias Correa Dantas   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

The prevalence of Chlamydia trachomatis infection in Australia: a systematic review and meta-analysis

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2012
BackgroundChlamydia trachomatis is a common sexually transmitted infection in Australia. This report aims to measure the burden of chlamydia infection by systematically reviewing reports on prevalence in Australian populations.MethodsElectronic databases
D. Lewis, D. Newton, R. Guy, H. Ali, Marcus Y. Chen, C. Fairley, J. Hocking   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Pilot prevalence evaluation of Chlamydia Trachomatis by PCR in female infertile referred to study center of infertility in Mashhad

Iranian South Medical Journal, 2015
Background: Chlamydia trachomatis is one of the most common diseases as sexually transferred in world. According to the World Health Organization statistics, approximately 92 million new Chlamydia trachomatis infection occur in the world.
Lana Goshayeshi, Fateme Vahid Roudsari, Kiarash Ghazvini, Hussain Nomani, Saeed Amel Jamehdar   +4 more
doaj  

Type-Specific Antibodies in Human Chlamydia Trachomatis Infections of the Eye [PDF]

, 1974
O. Briones, Lavelle Hanna, Ernest Jawetz, Chandler R. Dawson, H. Bruce Ostler   +4 more
openalex   +1 more source

Chlamydia trachomatis in Cell Culture. I. Comparison of Efficiencies of Infection in Several Chemically Defined Media, at Various pH and Temperature Values, and After Exposure to Diethylaminoethyl-Dextran [PDF]

, 1973
T R Rota, Roger Nichols
openalex   +1 more source