Chlamydia A in the female genital tract.
Chlamydia A in the female genital tract.
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女性生殖道中的衣原体 A。
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1974
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Hilton
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A. L. Hiltont;S. Richmond;J. D. Milnet;F. Hindleyt;S. Clarke;Jones;Smith Collier;Al;Dunlop;Al;Garland;Vaughan;Oriel;Nicol Reeve;Richmond;Hilton
The first genital tract isolates of Chlamydia A were obtained from parents of babies suffering from TRIC ophthalmia neonatorum, by growth in the yolk sac of fertile eggs (Jones, Collier, and Smith, 1959; Jones, Al-Hussaini, and Dunlop, 1964). It was noted that the fathers of these babies were frequently suffering from non-gonococcal urethritis (NGU) and that the mothers often showed changes in the cervix. The isolation of Chlamydia from two of nine unselected males suffering from NGU confirmed the association of these organisms with non-specific genital infection (Dunlop, Al-Hussaini, Garland, Treharne, Harper, and Jones, 1965). These early observations have been confirmed and extended since the development of irradiated McCoy cell cultures for the isolation of Chlamydia A. With this technique, it has been established that Chlamydia can be isolated from the urethra of about 40 per cent. of men with NGU (Dunlop, Vaughan-Jackson, Darougar, and Jones, 1972; Oriel, Reeve, Powis, Miller, and Nicol, 1972; Richmond, Hilton, and Clarke, 1972) and that they are only rarely isolated from equally promiscuous men without urethritis (Oriel and others, 1972; Richmond and others, 1972). However, a similar isolation rate was shown in men suffering from gonorrhoea (G) (Richmond and others, 1972) which threw doubt on whether a chlamydial infection was the initial cause of NGU, and raised the possibility that urethritis of any cause activated an existing but quiescent chlamydial infection in the male urethra. This activated infection appeared to be pathogenic since Chlamydia-positive patients with G were much more prone to develop post-gonococcal urethritis (PGU) than Chlamydia-negative G patients, and since the isolation rate of Chlamydia in men with NGU who had a long-standing untreated urethral