Is there a need for rescreening of patients treated for genital chlamydial infections?
Författare
Summary, in English
The present communication reviews reasons to perform rescreening of chlamydia-infected persons. It brings up difficulties to differentiate between relapse and reinfection. Studies on follow-up of chlamydia-positive cases after therapy are reviewed. It also highlights reasons for therapeutic failure, like compliance, pharmacological factors, including poor bioavailability, wrong dose regimens, lack of adherence to drug intake, neglect of partner notification and concomitant therapy in consorts, possible development of resistance to drugs generally prescribed, false negative or false positive diagnostic tests and reinfection from extra-genital not 'cured' sites. The review points to the need to establish programmes for routine rescreening of chlamydia-infected persons.
Publiceringsår
2002
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
363-367
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
International Journal of STD and AIDS
Volym
13
Issue
6
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Royal Society of Medicine Press
Ämne
- Infectious Medicine
Nyckelord
- genital infection
- rescreening
- chlamydia
Status
Published
Forskningsgrupp
- Clinical Microbiology, Malmö
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 0956-4624