Abstract

JOYA, Milagros et al. Infertility and infection with Chlamydia trachomatis in sexually active women from Carabobo state, Venezuela. Revista médica Risaralda [online]. 2014, vol.20, n.1, pp.24-28. ISSN 0122-0667.

Introduction: Chlamydia trachomatis is an obligate intracellular bacterium whose only host is human, capable of producing the condition called chlamydiosis, infection can be acute or chronic, very often causes infertility in women. The situation may be serious for Venezuela where epidemiological information is scarce and limited to a small number of studies and official data incomplete. Materials and Method: this research sought to determine in sexually active women with infertility caused by C. trachomatis as a possible cause. It was a descriptive study of 198 women from different communities in the state of Carabobo, Venezuela with primary or secondary infertility. Identification data were collected and obstetric history and through indirect immunosorbent assay were determined IgM and IgGanti C. trachomatis. Results: the average age was 34.3 ± 5.9 years, 38.4% were infected, of these 72.3% were in the fertile period of their reproductive lives and were positive for both Ig. Of these 43.7% achieved pregnancy but 35.4% ended in abortion and 5.2 in ectopic pregnancy. Discussion: there is high prevalence and association between infection for C. trachomatis and infertility in women of the Carabobo, Venezuela state, as direct consequence of the majority asymptomatic character of the chlamidial infection and of your evolution towards the inflammatory pelvic illness determining condition of feminine primary infertility, of abortions and ectopic pregnancies, friendly in these women because the full age were in the active phase of the infection and in the middle of fertile period.

Keywords : Chlamydia trachomatis; infertility; Prevalence; women; enzyme immunosorbent assay.

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