Follicular cervicitis--colposcopic appearances and association with Chlamydia trachomatis

Follicular cervicitis was recognised in 15 (44 per cent) of 34 women who were examined colposcopically and who were sexual partners of men with non-gonococcal urethritis. Valid results of culture for Chlamydia trachomatis were obtained in 26 cases: the organism was isolated from the cervix of five of 11 women in whom follicular cervicitis had been diagnosed, but from only one of 15 whose cervices did not have this change. A similar correlation was not found for infection with Mycoplasma hominis or Ureaplasma urealyticum.