Chlamydia trachomatis Test-of-Cure Cannot Be Based on a Single Highly Sensitive Laboratory Test Taken at Least 3 Weeks after Treatment
Figure 1
Cervicovaginal (a) and anorectal (b) Chlamydia trachomatis rRNA and DNA detection between 23 and 51 days post directly observed Azythromycin treatment.
Each row represents a cervicovaginal or anorectal Ct infection. Twenty five infections (out of 59) had at least one positive sample between 23 and 51 days post-treatment and these 25 infections are displayed here. Self taken swabs were tested for Ct rRNA (TMA, Tigris; GenProbe, San Diego, US) and plasmid DNA (real-time in house PCR; Amsterdam, the Netherlands) [12].