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Urinary symptoms? Test for chlamydia and UTI. (Not Just Vaginal Symptoms).
MIAMI BEACH -- Patients who present with urinary symptoms should be tested for chlamydia as well as a urinary tract infection, Dr. Jill Huppert urged at the annual meeting of the North American Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology
"Most clinicians would expect patients with chlamydia to present with vaginal symptoms and patients with urinary tract infection [UTI] to present with urinary symptoms, but we found the rates of chlamydia were almost equally high in those women with urinary symptoms and those with vaginal symptoms," said Dr. Huppert, a research fellow at the Teen Health Center, Children's Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati.
In a retrospective chart review of 82 patient visits to a teen health center during which both UTI and chlamydia tests were done, Dr. Huppert found 12 patients with chlamydia alone, 14 with UTI alone, and 6 with concurrent UTI and chlamydia.
Among the 20 women with urinary symptoms, only 5 (25%) had a diagnosis of chlamydia, and 7 (35%) had a UTI. The remainder had neither infection.
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