PubMed · 13614939
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M A FIDALGO DIAZ. [Gonococcal urethritis].. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/13614939/
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Taking a history is useful in the evaluation of women with tubal factor infertility. A clinical history also predicts those women who will benefit from surgical therapy.
Taking a relevant history that includes pelvic inflammatory disease or exposure to sexually transmitted diseases is not obsolete.
BACKGROUND: Among other diseases, Chlamydia trachomatis causes epididymitis and prostatitis in men and urethritis, cervicitis and pelvic inflammatory disease in women. In children, it most usually causes conjunctivitis and is also responsible for lower respiratory tract disease, occasionally requiring hospital admission. OBJECTIVE: To draw attention to this disease, which is usually overlooked and which can be potentially serious. METHODS: We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of infants aged less than 6 months with symptoms of lower respiratory tract disease in whom C. trachomatis antigen was detected by enzyme immunoassay. RESULTS: We identified 18 patients with C. trachomatis between 1993 and 2002. Of these, 17 patients required hospital admission and five required monitoring in the pediatric intensive care unit. The mean length of hospital stay was 9.6 days. Three patients were immigrants. The mean age at admission was 6.6 weeks. Apnea occurred in five infants. Chest x-ray showed interstitial infiltrates in five infants. Sixteen patients were treated with erythromycin and all made a complete recovery. CONCLUSIONS: Although lower respiratory tract disease caused by C. trachomatis is usually managed on an outpatient basis, it sometimes requires hospital admission or even management in the intensive care unit. Therefore, C. trachomatis infection should be ruled out in infants aged less than 6 months with clinical symptoms of lower respiratory tract disease for which no other pathogen can be found.