<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?><article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
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<journal-meta>
<journal-id>0120-4157</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Biomédica]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Biomed.]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>0120-4157</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Instituto Nacional de Salud]]></publisher-name>
</publisher>
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<article-id>S0120-41572022000300522</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.7705/biomedica.6246</article-id>
<title-group>
<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Detección de infección por Chlamydia trachomatis en mujeres sexualmente activas en Venezuela]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Detection of Chlamydia trachomatis infection in sexually active women in Venezuela]]></article-title>
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<surname><![CDATA[Joya]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Milagros]]></given-names>
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<surname><![CDATA[Heredia]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Ricardo]]></given-names>
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<surname><![CDATA[Bastidas]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Daniel]]></given-names>
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<surname><![CDATA[Bastidas]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Gilberto]]></given-names>
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<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad de Carabobo  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[San Diego ]]></addr-line>
<country>Venezuela</country>
</aff>
<aff id="Af2">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad de Carabobo  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[San Diego ]]></addr-line>
<country>Venezuela</country>
</aff>
<aff id="Af3">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad de Carabobo  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>Venezuela</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>09</month>
<year>2022</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>09</month>
<year>2022</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>42</volume>
<numero>3</numero>
<fpage>522</fpage>
<lpage>530</lpage>
<copyright-statement/>
<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S0120-41572022000300522&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S0120-41572022000300522&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S0120-41572022000300522&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen  Introducción. La infección genital por Chlamydia trachomatis es una de las más frecuentes en el mundo. Cada año se registran cerca de 85 millones de nuevos casos de esta enfermedad, que cursa con graves complicaciones en la mujer y recién nacido.  Objetivo. Determinar las características clínico-epidemiológicas de la infección por C. trachomatis en mujeres venezolanas sexualmente activas.  Materiales y métodos. Es un estudio descriptivo, transversal y de campo, sustentado en la historia clínica y el examen físico, la detección de infección con la prueba inmunoenzimática con anticuerpos policlonales anti-LPS y la confirmación de los resultados con la de biología molecular. La muestra estuvo conformada por 100 mujeres sexualmente activas mayores de 12 años de edad, del estado Carabobo, Venezuela.  Resultados. La mayoría de las mujeres se encontraba entre los 20 y los 45 años de edad. En el 25 % de las mismas, se detectaron anticuerpos IgG anti-C. trachomatis y, en el 84 % de estas, se confirmó la infección mediante PCR; en ninguna de las mujeres se hallaron anticuerpos IgM anti-C. trachomatis.  Conclusión. La infección crónica predomina en las mujeres entre los 20 y los 45 años de edad; la prueba inmunoenzimática arrojó falsos positivos corroborados por PCR.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract  Introduction: Genital Chlamydia trachomatis infection is one of the most frequent in the world; about 85 million new cases of this pathology are registered each year, which causes severe complications in women and newborns.  Objective: To determine the clinical-epidemiological characteristics of C. trachomatis infection in sexually active Venezuelan women.  Materials and methods: Descriptive, cross-sectional, and field study based on the clinical history and physical examination, detection of infection with immunoenzymatic assay with anti-LPS polyclonal antibody and confirmation of results with molecular biology test. The sample consisted of 100 sexually active women over 12 years of age from Carabobo state, Venezuela.  Results: The women were mostly between 20 and 45 years old, in 25% of them IgG antibodies to C. trachomatis were detected and in 84% of these the infection was confirmed by PCR, in none of the women IgM antibodies to C. trachomatis were found.  Conclusion: Chronic infection characterizes women between 20 and 45 years of age; the immunoenzymatic test yielded false positives corroborated by PCR.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Clamydia trachomatis]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[infección]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[inmunoglobulina M, inmunoglobulina G, reacción en cadena de la polimerasa]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[epidemiología]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Chlamydia trachomatis]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[infection]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[immunoglobulin M]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[immunoglobulin G]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[chain reaction polymerase]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[epidemiology]]></kwd>
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