Prevalencia en Tucumán de Chlamydia trachomatis y Ureaplasma urealyticum en mujeres sexualmente activas / [Prevalence in Tucumán of Chlamydia trachomatis and Ureaplasma urealyticum in sexually active women]

ABSTRACT

A group of 298 sexually active women who consulted for cervicitis, sterility or infertility were studied to detect the prevalence of Chlamydia trachomatis and Ureaplasma urealyticum and also to correlate the presence of these pathogens with tube damage. Chlamydial antigens were detected with a fluorescent commercial reagent with specific monoclonal antibodies. The isolation of U. urealyticum was made following the Shepard and Lunceford (19) techniques. In all samples of endocervical canal, we observed a higher incidence of chlamydial antigens (42.8