Chaudhuri P, Sng E H, Yuen W S
Genitourin Med. 1986 Feb;62(1):17-8. doi: 10.1136/sti.62.1.17.
Fifty consecutive unmarried women seeking termination of pregnancy in a state run general hospital in Singapore were screened for cervical Chlamydia trachomatis infection before abortion. Chlamydial infection was diagnosed by taking a cervical swab, culturing the organism in tissue culture media, and identifying the inclusion bodies by dark ground fluorescent microscopy. Chlamydia trachomatis was recovered in as many as 14% of cases. None of the patients gave any history suggestive of promiscuity. Compared with gonorrhoea in the non-prostitutes sexually active women of the population studied, the incidence of infection with Chlamydia trachomatis was found to be high. Patients with positive cultures often defaulted from follow up, thus posing a genuine risk of the spread of the disease by vertical and horizontal transmission.
在新加坡一家国营综合医院，对连续50名寻求终止妊娠的未婚女性在堕胎前进行了宫颈沙眼衣原体感染筛查。通过采集宫颈拭子、在组织培养基中培养病原体并通过暗视野荧光显微镜鉴定包涵体来诊断衣原体感染。多达14%的病例中检测到沙眼衣原体。没有一名患者有任何滥交史。与所研究人群中无嫖娼行为的性活跃女性的淋病相比，发现沙眼衣原体感染的发生率很高。培养结果呈阳性的患者经常不进行后续随访，从而构成了通过垂直和水平传播导致疾病传播的真正风险。
