Evaluation of major outer membrane protein-based pcr and plasmid-based pcr in diagnosis chlamydia trachomatis endocervicitis

ABSTRACT

Background: The World Health Organization has stated that sexually transmitted diseases [STDs] rank second in importance after cancer as treatable diseases in women. Chlamydia trachomatis is one of the most important sexually transmitted diseases in terms of incidence, prevalence of serious complications. The nucleic acid amplification techniques [NAATs], which have become the method of choice have high sensitivity and specificity and are considered to be a more suitable method either for screening or diagnosing chlamydial infections