[Our experience in the serodetection of Chlamydia infections in tubal pathology]

Chlamydia appears to be an increasingly frequent cause of salpingitis and its complications (sterility, extra-uterine pregnancy). The difficulty of isolating Chlamydia in cell cultures has led us to study the value of serology in the form of immunofluorescence and ELISA. This study is based on 475 cases (206 controls and 269 women with tubal disease). Although it is difficult to interpret an isolated IgG level, the results nevertheless confirmed the value of serodetection: especially the comparison between the control group (18.44% positive) and the pathological group (62.08% positive) and the effectiveness obtained when cases of tubal sterility were treated with appropriate antibiotics, alone or in combination with surgery.