Chlamydia trachomatis Infection of the Neovagina in Transgender Women

We report 2 cases of neovaginal Chlamydia trachomatis infection in transgender women who underwent penile-inversion vaginoplasty procedures with integrated peritoneum and urethral grafts. These tissue types may have facilitated C. trachomatis infection. Medical providers should implement neovaginal...

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Autores principales: Radix, Asa E, Harris, Alexander B, Belkind, Uri, Ting, Jess, Goldstein, Zil G
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2019
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Brief Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7200138/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32395566
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz470
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author Radix, Asa E
Harris, Alexander B
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description We report 2 cases of neovaginal Chlamydia trachomatis infection in transgender women who underwent penile-inversion vaginoplasty procedures with integrated peritoneum and urethral grafts. These tissue types may have facilitated C. trachomatis infection. Medical providers should implement neovaginal screening for bacterial sexually transmitted infections in transgender patients at risk for infection.
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spelling pubmed-72001382020-05-11 Chlamydia trachomatis Infection of the Neovagina in Transgender Women Radix, Asa E Harris, Alexander B Belkind, Uri Ting, Jess Goldstein, Zil G Open Forum Infect Dis Brief Reports We report 2 cases of neovaginal Chlamydia trachomatis infection in transgender women who underwent penile-inversion vaginoplasty procedures with integrated peritoneum and urethral grafts. These tissue types may have facilitated C. trachomatis infection. Medical providers should implement neovaginal screening for bacterial sexually transmitted infections in transgender patients at risk for infection. Oxford University Press 2019-11-11 /pmc/articles/PMC7200138/ /pubmed/32395566 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz470 Text en © The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7200138/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz470
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