ABSTRACT
Objective To investigate the status of Chlamydia trachomatis(CT) infection in pregnant women in Wuxi ,and to ex‐plore the relationship between CT and abortion .Methods A total of 3 199 cases of pregnant women visiting this hospital from Jan‐uary 2013 to December 2014 were enrolled in this study and divided into the missed abortion group(2 633 cases) ,incomplete abor‐tion group(265 cases) ,the inevitable abortion group(137 cases) ,threatened abortion group(104 cases) and control group(60 cases , all women undergoing induced abortion) .The CT infection was detected by using the fluorescent quantitative polymerase chain reac‐tion(FQ‐PCR) .Results The positive rate of CT in missed abortion group ,incomplete abortion group ,the inevitable abortion group and threatened abortion group were 5 .62% ,4 .53% ,5 .11% and 4 .81% ,respectively ,all were higher than that in the control group (3 .33% ) ,without statistically significant differences (P>0 .05) .The positive rate of CT in women in 16- 0 .05) .Conclusion The posi‐tive rate in women undergoing spontaneous abortion is higher than that in women undergoing induced abortion ,and young women has a higher infection rate of CT .