Author/Editor		Takač, I; Gorišek, B
Title		The frequency of Chlamydia trachomatis infection in women with intraepithelial neoplasia of the uterine cervux
Type		članek
Source		Eur J Gynaecol Oncol
Vol. and No.		Letnik 19, št. 5
Publication year		1998
Volume		str. 492-4
Language		eng
Abstract		Objective:To evaluate the frequency of Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) infection in patients with cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) referred for conisation. Methods: 423 patients with histologically proven CIN were included in this study. Before conisation, cytological material for direct immunofluorescence analysis was obtained. The incidence of CT in cytologic smears of all three CIN groups was calculated. Results: Among all patients with CIN, 27 (6.4%) were CT positive and 396 (93.5%) CT negative. There were 2 (8.3%) CT positive patients with CIN 1,10 (9.3%) with CIN 2 and 15 (5,2%) with CIN 3. The difference between CT infection incidence in patients with CIN 1 and CIN 2 was not significant; neither was it significant between patients with CIN 1 and CIN 3 nor between those with CIN 2 or CIN 3. Conclusions: Chlamydia trachomatis infections in patients with CIN is not very common. The impact of CT infections does not seem to interfere with development or even promotion of CIN.
Descriptors		CERVIX NEOPLASMS CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS PROSPECTIVE STUDIES FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, DIRECT CONIZATION