The association between Chlamydia trachomatis and pelvic inflammatory disease : findings from observational studies

Abstract excerpt

Estimates of the cost-effectiveness of chlamydia control interventions are highly sensitive to the risk of progression from genital chlamydia infection to pelvic inflammatory disease (PID). There is no consensus for the risk of PID following asymptomatic chlamydia infections detected through population-based testing. The aim of this thesis is to generate improved estimates of this risk of PID that can be used to p...

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• Case-Control Studies
• Chlamydia Infections
• Chlamydia trachomatis
• Genome-Wide Association Study
• In Vitro Techniques
• Receptors, G-Protein-Coupled
• Reproductive tract infections research
• Risk Factors

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Literature Corpus work

303809ab-ba39-5efc-9b29-7ccb7e6e73b5

DOI

10.25560/42879