Autoantibodies in Patients with Acute Salpingitis Caused by Chlamydia Trachomatis

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Abstract
Autoantibodies were investigated by the indirect immunofluorescence method in 10 women with salpingitis caused by C. trachomatis and in 22 controls. Smooth muscle antibodies (SMA) of the IgG and IgM class and IgM-antinuclear antibodies (ANA) were found more frequently in patients with salpingitis than in controls (P = 0.024, P = 0.001 and P = 0.015, respectively), but the titers were low (10-80) in both groups. Other autoantibodies (IgG-ANA, glomerular antibodies, parietal cell antibodies and reticulin antibodies) were uncommon in both patients and in controls. As in virus and Mycoplasma infections IgM-SMA occurred most often in the beginning of the disease.