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Chlamydia trachomatis infections and subfertility: opportunities to translate host pathogen genomic data into public health.
Public health genomics - 1 Jan 2013
Lal J A, Malogajski J, Verweij S P, de Boer P, Ambrosino E, Brand A, Ouburg S, Morré S A
Abstract excerpt
Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) infections in women can result in tubal pathology (TP). Worldwide 10-15% of all couples are subfertile, meaning they did not get pregnant after 1 year. Part of the routine subfertility diagnostics is the Chlamydia Antibody Test (CAT) to decide for laparoscopy or not in order to diagnose TP. The CAT positive and negative predictive value is such that many unneeded laparoscopies are done...
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