Sexually active adolescents and young adults: a high-risk group for Chlamydia trachomatis infection
| Autor: | C. Midulla, Andrea Torre, Daniela Rossi, Mario Midulla, S. Sanguigni, Ettore Calzolari, Omerro Giardini, Marco Salzano, M. Bavastrelli |
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| Rok vydání: | 1998 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Sexually Transmitted Diseases Chlamydia trachomatis medicine.disease_cause Asymptomatic Risk Factors Internal medicine Confidence Intervals Odds Ratio Prevalence Medicine Humans Urethritis Young adult Risk factor Direct fluorescent antibody Gynecology Travel Chi-Square Distribution business.industry Genitourinary system General Medicine Chlamydia Infections medicine.disease medicine.anatomical_structure Italy Adolescent Behavior Fluorescent Antibody Technique Direct Vagina Female medicine.symptom business |
| Zdroj: | Journal of travel medicine. 5(2) |
| ISSN: | 1195-1982 |
| Popis: | Background: The importance of travel as a risk factor for Chlamydia trachomatis infection was evaluated among a series of young people consecutively tested. Methods: We studied 130 sexually active young subjects, aged 14–25 years, all living in the Rome, Italy, urban area. Ninety-eight females and 32 males attended hospital-based clinics or were the partners of an infected female. About half of these subjects had traveled abroad either for pleasure or for work, mostly to Europe, but also to North America or to Asia, where they admitted to having had casual sex. We used two “gold standard” methods to diagnose infection with C. trachomatis: culture on McCoy cells grown in shell vial, and direct immunofluorescence with monoclonal antibodies. Subjects were considered infected when at least one test was positive. Results: Thirty-nine of 130 (30%) subjects were asymptomatic, and 27/130 (20.8%) subjects were infected with Chlamydia trachomatis, of whom 6/25 (24%) asymptomatic females and 3/14 (21.4%) asymptomatic males were infected. Among teen-aged (ages 14–19) youngsters with more than one sex partner, international travel was an additional significant risk factor for C. trachomatis infection (p |
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