| an epidemiological survey of female reproductive health status: gynecological complaints and sexually-transmitted diseases. | an epidemiological survey of gynecological and sexually-transmitted diseases was conducted in 4 villages of narmpong district, khon kaen, thailand. it was focused on the reproductive health status of rural women. a mobile gynecological clinic was set up to collect materials and data including demographic characteristics, physical examination and specimen collection. vaginal swabs were examined by microscope, gram staining, ph measurement, koh test and bacteriological cultivation. endocervical sw ... | 1999 | 10774697 |
| atypical bacterial pathogen infection in children with acute bronchiolitis in northeast thailand. | atypical bacterial pathogens--including mycoplasma pneumoniae, chlamydophila pneumoniae, and chlamydia trachomatis--are important infectious agents of the respiratory system. most current information pertains to adults and little is known about the role of these organisms in lower respiratory tract infections among young children with acute bronchiolitis. | 2011 | 21439510 |
| an assessment and evaluation of methods for diagnosis of chlamydial and gonococcal infections. | chlamydia trachomatis and neisseria gonorrhoeae were studied in 350 females and 140 males attending the sexually transmitted disease clinic and aids center, khon kaen zone 6 and the division of obstetrics and gynecology, khon kaen hospital. chlamydia trachomatis infection was diagnosed by cell culture (cc), enzyme immunoassay (eia) (bioquest, nsw, australia) and nucleic acid hybridization (pace2 system: gen-probe, san diego, calif). it was found that the sensitivity, specificity and positive and ... | 1997 | 9656403 |
| lack of significant effects of chlamydia trachomatis infection on cervical cancer risk in a nested case-control study in north-east thailand. | cervical cancer continues to be an important public health problem in thailand. while the high risk human papillomavirus (hpv) types have been established as the principle causative agent of both malignancies and the precursor lesions, cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (cin), other factors may also be involved like other sexually transmitted diseases, as well as smoking. chlamydia trachomatis is an obligate intracellular gram-negative bacterium which has a tendency to cause chronic infection fe ... | 2014 | 24606489 |
| etiology of acute lower respiratory tract infection in children at srinagarind hospital, khon kaen, thailand. | we investigated the etiology of acute lower respiratory infection (alri) in children under 5 admitted to srinagarind hospital. the causative bacteria and viruses were determined by hemoculture and viral isolation from blood and nasopharyngeal aspirate samples. antigens of respiratory syncytial virus (rsv) and chlamydia trachomatis were detected using eia. the 74 children less than 5 years of age with alri enrolled in our study were diagnosed with pneumonia (75.7%), croup (16.2%), and bronchiolit ... | 2001 | 11944709 |