Chlamydia trachomatis infection in mothers and infants. A prospective study
A. D. Heggie, G. G. Lumicao, L. A. Stuart and M. T. Gyves
The incidence of chlamydia trachomatis infection of the cervix during
pregnancy was found to be 18% in a group of 1,327 women attending the
prenatal clinic of a large urban hospital. There were no statistically
significant differences between infected and uninfected women in the type
or frequency of complications of pregnancy. Chlamydial infection was
demonstrated in 27 (28%) of 95 infants born vaginally to infected mothers.
Conjunctival infection in these infants was detected earlier than
nasopharyngeal infection and the conjunctivae appeared to be the usual
portal of entry for the organism. Infants were observed through the age of
12 weeks. Conjunctivae, but the chlamydial pneumonia syndrome occurred in
only three (17%) of 18 infants with nasopharyngeal infection.
