High prevalence and circulant genotypes of Chlamydia trachomatis in vulnerable university women from four cities in the Brazilian Amazon

Leonardo Miranda dos Santos, Rodrigo Covre Vieira, Lídia Bolivar da Luz Silva, Geraldo Mariano Moraes de Macedo,Helder Henrique Costa Pinheiro,Angélica Espinosa Miranda,Danielle Murici Brasiliense, Ricardo José de Paula Souza e Guimarães,Edivaldo Costa Sousa Junior, Stephen Francis Ferrari,Edna Aoba Yassui Ishikawa,Maísa Silva de Sousa

Research Square (Research Square)(2022)

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Abstract Background Approximately 80% of infected women infected by Chlamydia trachomatis are asymptomatic, although this infection can lead to serious complications in the female reproductive tract. Few data on Chlamydiainfection and genotypes are available in Amazonian communities. Objectives To describe the prevalence of and associated factors and to identify the genotypes of sexual C. trachomatis infection in female university students in different urban centers (capital and interiors) in the Brazilian state of Pará, in the eastern Amazon region. Methods A cross-sectional study was performed among young women attending public universities in four different urban centers in the eastern Amazon region. They were invited to participate in the studt and cervical secretions were collected for molecular diagnosis of C. trachomatis. We utilized amplification of the ompA gene by nested PCR. Positive samples were genotyped by nucleotide sequencing. Study participants completed a questionnaire on social, epidemiological, and reproductive health variables. A Qui-square and Binominal regression test were used to evaluate the degree of association of these variables with the infection. Results A total of 686 female students was included in the study. The overall prevalence of C. trachomatis was 11.2% (77/686). The prevalence of this infection was higher in interiors (15.2% vs 9.5%/ p: 0.0443). Female university students who do not have a sexual partner (11.8%/p <0.008), who do not use a condom in their sexual relations (17.8%/p <0.0001) and who reported having suffered a miscarriage (32%/p <0.0001) have high chances of acquiring this sexual infection. The ompA gene was sequenced in only 33 (42.8%) samples, revealing the genotype J was the most frequent (27.2% [9/33]), followed by genotypes D (24.2% [8/33]), and then genotypes F (18.2% [6/33]), E (15.1% [5/33]) K (6.1% [2/33]), Ia (6.1% [2/33]), and G (3.1% [1/33]). Conclusions The high prevalence of sexual infection by C. trachomatis in the female university students from the interior of the state of Pará, individuals with no fixed sexual partner, those that had had a miscarriage, the students that do not use condoms in their sexual relations. The genotype J of C. trachomatis genotypes was the most frequent. These data are important to help defining the epidemiological effects of chlamydial infections in Amazonian populations.
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chlamydia trachomatis,circulant genotypes,vulnerable university women,high prevalence
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