The presentation and incidence of paratrachoma in adults
- 1 August 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Epidemiology and Infection
- Vol. 87 (1), 63-69
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022172400069242
Abstract
Summary: Thirteen definite and 3 probable cases of chlamydial eye infection were diagnosed in young adults attending the Bristol Eye Hospital between June 1978 and May 1980, an incidence of about 1 case per 44000 per year in the 15 to 44-year-old community served by this hospital, and 1 per 100000 in the total population of this community. These patients presented with a sub-acute follicular conjunctivitis or kerato-conjunctivitis, which had usually been present for several weeks and had often failed to respond to topical chloramphenicol treatment before presentation. Sera obtained from 14 patients all had chlamydial antibody titres of 64 or more. Over the same period of time, an estimated 2500 patients per year from the same community attended the Venereology Department at the Bristol Royal Infirmary with genital chlamydial infections. These figures suggest that chlamydial infection of the eye complicates no more than 1 in 300 chlamydial infections of the genital tract in adults.This publication has 16 references indexed in Scilit:
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