Prevalence and circulant genotypes of Chlamydia trachomatis in university women from cities in the Brazilian Amazon.
Leonardo Miranda Dos SantosMaria Renata Mendonça Dos Santos VieiraRodrigo Covre VieiraLídia Bolivar da Luz SilvaGeraldo Mariano Moraes de MacêdoAngélica Espinosa MirandaDanielle Murici BrasilienseRicardo José de Paula Souza E GuimarãesEdivaldo Costa SousaStephen Francis FerrariHelder Henrique Costa PinheiroEdna Aoba Yassui IshikawaMaísa Silva de SousaPublished in: PloS one (2024)
The high prevalence of sexual infection by C. trachomatis in the female university students from the interior of the state of Pará, individuals with no fixed sexual partner, those that had had a miscarriage, the students that do not use condoms in their sexual relations. The genotype J of C. trachomatis genotypes was the most frequent. These data are important to help defining the epidemiological effects of chlamydial infections in Amazonian populations.