CONJUNCTIVITIS CAUSED BY CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS IN
NEONATES
Wu
Shixiao, Yang Jun, Wei Hong, et al.
Children’s Hospital, Chongqing, China
Objective: To Investigate The Prevalence
Of Neonatal Conjunctivitis caused by Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) and to evaluate
2 methods of detecting CT in neonatal conjunctivitis.
Methods:
A total of 125 conjunctival scrapings taken from neonates with
conjunctivitis in Children’s Hospital from 1997 to 1998 was tested by the
McCoy cell culture and polymerase chain reaction (PCR).
Results:
The detection rates of CT in neonatal conjunctivitis were 41.6% by cell
culture and 51.2% by PCR. The sensitivities of cell culture and PCR were
81.3% and 94.2%,respectively. The prevalence of CT con-junctivitis was
obviously higher in neonates delivered through vagina than those by
cesarean section delivery (74% and 9%,respectively, P<0.01).
Conclusion:
CT was the main pathogenic microorganism of neonatal conjunctivitis in
Children’s Hospital from 1997 to 1998(51.2%). PCR was more sensitive than
the cell culture in the detection of CT.