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Test-of-cure analysis by direct immunofluorescence for Chlamydia trachomatis after antimicrobial therapy
I Nachamkin1, K Sawyer, D Skalina
1Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia 19104-4283.
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
|September 1, 1987
Abstract:
The direct immunofluorescence assay (DFA) was compared with culture for test-of-cure analysis for Chlamydia trachomatis in patients 7 to 10 days after antimicrobial therapy was given. DFA test-of-cure results correlated with culture results in 79.5% of 39 patients. Of DFA-negative patients, 97% had negative cultures. Six of seven patients with borderline DFA results had negative culture results.