[Prevalence in Tucumán of Chlamydia trachomatis and Ureaplasma urealyticum in sexually active women].

A group of 298 sexually active women who consulted for cervicitis, sterility or infertility were studied to detect the prevalence of Chlamydia trachomatis and Ureaplasma urealyticum and also to correlate the presence of these pathogens with tube damage. Chlamydial antigens were detected with a fluorescent commercial reagent with specific monoclonal antibodies. The isolation of U. urealyticum was made following the Shepard and Lunceford (19) techniques. In all samples of endocervical canal, we observed a higher incidence of chlamydial antigens (42.8%) with respect to U. urealyticum (5.7%). In peritoneal liquid the values were 38.8% and 5.5%, respectively. In the group of infertile women, we observed a higher incidence of C. trachomatis (49.5%), with 31.7% in the sterile group and 53.2% in those women with cervicitis without failures in reproduction. The frequency of U. urealyticum was 11.1%, 6.1% and 4%, respectively. According to the results obtained we can postulate that there is no correlation between infections produced by C. trachomatis and U. urealyticum and failures in reproduction.