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Diagnosis of Chlamydia trachomatis genital infections by cell culture and two enzyme immunoassays detecting different chlamydial antigens

Abstract

The enzyme-amplified immunoassay IDEIA (CellTech Diagnostics), which measures lipopolysaccharide antigen, and Chlamydiazyme (Abbott Laboratories, North Chicago, Ill.), which measures several antigenic components of Chlamydia trachomatis, were compared for specimens from urethral swabs from 235 men attending a clinic for sexually transmitted diseases (culture prevalence of 14.9%) and 458 endocervical swabs from women attending planned parenthood …

Authors

Mahony J; Castriciano S; Sellors J; Stewart I; Cunningham I; Landis S; Seidelman W; Grant L; Devlin C; Chernesky M

Journal

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, Vol. 27, No. 9, pp. 1934–1938

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Publication Date

September 1989

DOI

10.1128/jcm.27.9.1934-1938.1989

ISSN

0095-1137