High prevalence of sexual Chlamydia trachomatis infection in young women from Marajó Island, in the Brazilian Amazon.

Leonardo Miranda Dos SantosMaria Renata Mendonça Dos Santos VieiraJéssica Fernanda Galdino OliveiraJosinaide Quaresma TrindadeDanielle Murici BrasilienseStephen Francis FerrariMihoko Yamamoto TsutsumiHellen Thais FuziiEdivaldo Costa Sousa JuniorEdna Aoba Yassui IshikawaRicardo IshakMaísa Silva de Sousa

Published in: PloS one (2018)

We recorded a high prevalence of sexual infection by C. trachomatis in young and poor women from the interior of the Brazilian Amazon. This high prevalence and the frequencies of the main genotypes were similar to those found in major Brazilian urban centers. Our results reinforce the importance of the screening of this neglected infection, and the prevention of later sequelae in young women from rural and urban areas of Brazil.

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