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. 1983 Dec;59(6):373–375. doi: 10.1136/sti.59.6.373

Isolation of Chlamydia trachomatis from prostatic fluid in association with inflammatory joint or eye disease.

B T Goh, P Morgan-Capner, K S Lim
PMCID: PMC1046240  PMID: 6640262

Abstract

We describe two patients, one with peripheral arthritis, sacro-iliitis, positive HLA B27, and autoantibodies to smooth muscle and gastric parietal cell; the other with aphthoid ulcers, geographical tongue, conjunctivitis, anterior uveitis, peripheral arthralgia, and diarrhoea with distal proctocolitis. Neither patient would have been diagnosed as having urethritis on the basis of accepted microscopic criteria. In both patients, however, Chlamydia trachomatis was isolated from the prostatic fluid, but not the urethra.

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