Chlamydia TrachomatisGenital Infections in College Women

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Abstract
The most common sexually transmitted bacterial infection in the United States today is due to Chlamydia trachomatis. Chlamydia is more common than gonorrhea and causes a broad range of clinical manifestations, some of which are quite serious. Sixty-five women were screened for cervical chlamydia in a college health service. Five (8%) were positive for this infection. The infected women did not differ markedly from noninfected women in age or number of sexual partners. The presence of cervicitis was suggestive of chlamydia infection but not specific for it. Most of the chlamydia positive women were not contacts of a man with a recent diagnosis of nongonococcal urethritis. No cases of gonorrhea were discovered among the women screened.