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Chlamydia trachomatis infection among female inmates at Briman prison in Saudi Arabia
BACKGROUND: Chlamydia trachomatis infection is the most common sexually transmitted infection (STI) in the western countries; its prevalence in the conservative Muslim population of Saudi Arabia is not known, but it is generally believed to be low. This study is the first to investigate the prevalen...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3994489/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24649964 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-14-267 |
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author | Fageeh, Wafa Badawood, Sami Al Thagafi, Hanin Yasir, Muhammad Azhar, Esam Farraj, Suha Alomary, Mona Alsaeed, Moneerah Yaghmoor, Soonham Kumosani, Taha |
author_facet | Fageeh, Wafa Badawood, Sami Al Thagafi, Hanin Yasir, Muhammad Azhar, Esam Farraj, Suha Alomary, Mona Alsaeed, Moneerah Yaghmoor, Soonham Kumosani, Taha |
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description | BACKGROUND: Chlamydia trachomatis infection is the most common sexually transmitted infection (STI) in the western countries; its prevalence in the conservative Muslim population of Saudi Arabia is not known, but it is generally believed to be low. This study is the first to investigate the prevalence of and risk factors for C. trachomatis infection in the high-risk group of female inmates at Briman Prison in Jeddah. METHODS: The inmates were interviewed using a pre-designed questionnaire, and their urine samples were tested for C. trachomatis infection by real-time PCR assay. RESULTS: The overall prevalence of C. trachomatis infection was 8.7% in the study population. The ≤25 age group was predominantly affected, with an average prevalence of 16.6%. Two out of five (2/5, 40%) Yamani, (4/33 12.1%) Indonesian, (3/33, 9.1%) Somalian and (2/26, 7.7%) Ethiopian inmates were positive for infection. None of the Saudi inmates (0/14) were positive for infection. Among the studied variables, only age was significantly associated with the infection rate. The other variables (marital status, nationality, religion, employment status, education level, nature of the offense committed, knowledge about protection from STIs, and knowledge about condom use and the purpose of condom use) did not show a significant correlation with Chlamydia infection. CONCLUSIONS: The overall prevalence of C. trachomatis infection was within the range published by other reports in similar prison settings in developed countries. The results indicate the need for a countrywide screening and treatment program for all inmates at the time of entry into prison. |
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spelling | pubmed-39944892014-04-23 Chlamydia trachomatis infection among female inmates at Briman prison in Saudi Arabia Fageeh, Wafa Badawood, Sami Al Thagafi, Hanin Yasir, Muhammad Azhar, Esam Farraj, Suha Alomary, Mona Alsaeed, Moneerah Yaghmoor, Soonham Kumosani, Taha BMC Public Health Research Article BACKGROUND: Chlamydia trachomatis infection is the most common sexually transmitted infection (STI) in the western countries; its prevalence in the conservative Muslim population of Saudi Arabia is not known, but it is generally believed to be low. This study is the first to investigate the prevalence of and risk factors for C. trachomatis infection in the high-risk group of female inmates at Briman Prison in Jeddah. METHODS: The inmates were interviewed using a pre-designed questionnaire, and their urine samples were tested for C. trachomatis infection by real-time PCR assay. RESULTS: The overall prevalence of C. trachomatis infection was 8.7% in the study population. The ≤25 age group was predominantly affected, with an average prevalence of 16.6%. Two out of five (2/5, 40%) Yamani, (4/33 12.1%) Indonesian, (3/33, 9.1%) Somalian and (2/26, 7.7%) Ethiopian inmates were positive for infection. None of the Saudi inmates (0/14) were positive for infection. Among the studied variables, only age was significantly associated with the infection rate. The other variables (marital status, nationality, religion, employment status, education level, nature of the offense committed, knowledge about protection from STIs, and knowledge about condom use and the purpose of condom use) did not show a significant correlation with Chlamydia infection. CONCLUSIONS: The overall prevalence of C. trachomatis infection was within the range published by other reports in similar prison settings in developed countries. The results indicate the need for a countrywide screening and treatment program for all inmates at the time of entry into prison. BioMed Central 2014-03-20 /pmc/articles/PMC3994489/ /pubmed/24649964 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-14-267 Text en Copyright © 2014 Fageeh et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Fageeh, Wafa Badawood, Sami Al Thagafi, Hanin Yasir, Muhammad Azhar, Esam Farraj, Suha Alomary, Mona Alsaeed, Moneerah Yaghmoor, Soonham Kumosani, Taha Chlamydia trachomatis infection among female inmates at Briman prison in Saudi Arabia |
title | Chlamydia trachomatis infection among female inmates at Briman prison in Saudi Arabia |
title_full | Chlamydia trachomatis infection among female inmates at Briman prison in Saudi Arabia |
title_fullStr | Chlamydia trachomatis infection among female inmates at Briman prison in Saudi Arabia |
title_full_unstemmed | Chlamydia trachomatis infection among female inmates at Briman prison in Saudi Arabia |
title_short | Chlamydia trachomatis infection among female inmates at Briman prison in Saudi Arabia |
title_sort | chlamydia trachomatis infection among female inmates at briman prison in saudi arabia |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3994489/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24649964 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-14-267 |
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