Self-Reported History of Chlamydia or Gonorrhea Testing Among Heterosexual Women at High Risk of HIV Infection, National HIV Behavioral Surveillance, 2013.

Background: The US Preventive Services Task Force recommends annual chlamydia and gonorrhea screening for sexually active women <25 and ≥25 years old with associated risk factors. We sought to determine self-reported chlamydia and gonorrhea testing and diagnosis rates in the past 12 months in a community-based sample of heterosexual women at high risk of HIV infection.

Methods: We used National HIV Behavioral Surveillance data from 2013 when surveillance was conducted in heterosexual adults with low social economic status.

Self-Reported Infertility and Associated Pelvic Inflammatory Disease Among Women of Reproductive Age-National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, United States, 2013-2016.

Background: Sexually transmitted diseases, including chlamydia and gonorrhea, cause of pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) and infertility. We estimated the prevalence of infertility and infertility health care seeking.

Methods: We analyzed self-reported lifetime infertility and infertility health care-seeking in women aged 18 to 49 years in the 2013 and 2015 National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys.

Repeated infections are associated with lower bacterial loads.

Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) infections remain highly prevalent. CT reinfection occurs frequently within months after treatment, likely contributing to sustaining the high CT infection prevalence. Sparse studies have suggested CT reinfection is associated with a lower organism load, but it is unclear whether CT load at the time of treatment influences CT reinfection risk.

Advancing the public health applications of Chlamydia trachomatis serology.

Genital Chlamydia trachomatis infection is the most commonly diagnosed sexually transmitted infection. Trachoma is caused by ocular infection with C trachomatis and is the leading infectious cause of blindness worldwide. New serological assays for C trachomatis could facilitate improved understanding of C trachomatis epidemiology and prevention.

Performance of Chlamydia trachomatis OmcB Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay in Serodiagnosis of Chlamydia trachomatis Infection in Women.

serological assays with improved sensitivity over commercially available assays are needed to evaluate the burden of infection and the effectiveness of prevention efforts. We evaluated the performance of a outer membrane complex protein B (OmcB) enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) in the detection of anti- antibody responses in -infected women. OmcB ELISA was less sensitive than our elementary body (EB) ELISA, but it was highly specific.