Pelvic inflammatory disease in the adolescent and young adult: An update

DE Greydanus, MD Cabral, DR Patel - Disease-a-Month, 2022 - Elsevier
Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) is an infection of the female upper genital tract that is
typically polymicrobial with classic core involvement of Neisseria gonorrhoeae and/or …

Pelvic inflammatory disease in the adolescent: a poignant, perplexing, potentially preventable problem for patients and physicians

DE Greydanus, C Dodich - Current Opinion in Pediatrics, 2015 - journals.lww.com
Sequelae can be reduced in adolescent women if clinicians continue with regular chlamydia
screening in sexually active adolescent women, have a low index of suspicion for pelvic …

Site-Specific, Insertional Inactivation of incA in Chlamydia trachomatis Using a Group II Intron

CM Johnson, DJ Fisher - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Chlamydia trachomatis is an obligate, intracellular bacterial pathogen that has until more
recently remained recalcitrant to genetic manipulation. However, the field still remains …

Pathogenic Chlamydia Lack a Classical Sacculus but Synthesize a Narrow, Mid-cell Peptidoglycan Ring, Regulated by MreB, for Cell Division

G Liechti, E Kuru, M Packiam, YP Hsu, S Tekkam… - PLoS …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
The peptidoglycan (PG) cell wall is a peptide cross-linked glycan polymer essential for
bacterial division and maintenance of cell shape and hydrostatic pressure. Bacteria in the …

Chlamydia trachomatis Infection of Endocervical Epithelial Cells Enhances Early HIV Transmission Events

LR Buckner, AM Amedee, HL Albritton, PA Kozlowski… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Chlamydia trachomatis causes a predominantly asymptomatic, but generally inflammatory,
genital infection that is associated with an increased risk for HIV acquisition. Endocervical …

Unexpected genomic features in widespread intracellular bacteria: evidence for motility of marine chlamydiae

A Collingro, S Köstlbacher, M Mussmann… - The ISME …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Chlamydiae are obligate intracellular bacteria comprising important human pathogens and
symbionts of protists. Molecular evidence indicates a tremendous diversity of chlamydiae …

Vaccination with the recombinant major outer membrane protein elicits long-term protection in mice against vaginal shedding and infertility following a Chlamydia …

S Pal, MI Cruz-Fisher, C Cheng, JR Carmichael… - NPJ vaccines, 2020 - nature.com
Implementation of a vaccine is likely the best approach to curtail Chlamydia trachomatis
infections. The aim of this study was to determine the ability of a vaccine formulated with the …

Highly specific and efficient primers for in-house multiplex PCR detection of Chlamydia trachomatis, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Mycoplasma hominis and Ureaplasma …

MG Aguilera-Arreola, AM González-Cardel… - BMC research …, 2014 - Springer
Background Although sophisticated methodologies are available, the use of endpoint
polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to detect 16S rDNA genes remains a good approach for …

Irisin Activates M1 Macrophage and Suppresses Th2‐Type Immune Response in Rats with Pelvic Inflammatory Disease

Z Zhang, C Zhang, S Zhang - Evidence‐Based Complementary …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Objective. To investigate the mechanism of irisin to treat rats with acute pelvic inflammatory
disease (APID). Methods. Female rats were established as APID. Firstly, the content of IL‐6 …

The cationic liposomal adjuvants CAF01 and CAF09 formulated with the major outer membrane protein elicit robust protection in mice against a Chlamydia muridarum …

S Pal, DF Tifrea, F Follmann, P Andersen… - Vaccine, 2017 - Elsevier
Two cationic liposomal adjuvants CAF01 and CAF09 were formulated with the native or the
recombinant Chlamydia muridarum major outer membrane protein (nMOMP and rMOMP) …