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Abstract
The postabortal infection rate in chlamydia-positive women after antibiotic treatment (doxycycline or erythromycin) was compared with infectious morbidity among untreated culture-positive women in a comparable previous study. Of 69 chlamydia-positive patients, 5 (7.2%) developed endometritis and one (1.4%) salpingitis during the first postoperative month. The corresponding figures during the previous regimen were 16 (23.2%) and 10 (14.5%), respectively, i.e. a highly significant decrease (P less than 0.001). The infection rate among the chlamydia-negative women was unchanged. It is suggested that preoperative screening for C. trachomatis should precede legal abortion. Initiation of treatment of culture-positive cases before or at least in conjunction with the abortion seems to reduce the risk of infectious complications to the same level as in chlamydia-negative women.Entities:
Keywords: Age Distribution; Age Factors; Antibiotics--administraction and dosage; Biology; Chlamydia; Demographic Factors; Developed Countries; Diseases; Drugs; Europe; Examinations And Diagnoses; Incidence; Infections; Laboratory Examinations And Diagnoses; Measurement; Northern Europe; Population; Population Characteristics; Postabortion; Prospective Studies; Reproduction; Reproductive Tract Infections; Research Methodology; Risk Factors; Scandinavia; Sexually Transmitted Diseases; Studies; Sweden; Treatment
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Year: 1989 PMID： 2740963 DOI： 10.1097/00007435-198904000-00008
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Sex Transm Dis ISSN： 0148-5717 Impact factor: 2.830