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Speculum examination according to PCR results for C. trachomatis in pregnant women in Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil.
| Speculum examination | PCR for Chlamydia trachomatis |
Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Negative | ||||
| (n = 11) |
(n = 89) |
||||
| n | % | n | % | ||
| Cervicitis | 0.0193 | ||||
| Yes | 4 | 36.4 | 7 | 7.9 | |
| No | 7 | 63.6 | 82 | 92.1 | |
| Endocervical secretion | 0.0411 | ||||
| Yes | 7 | 63.6 | 25 | 28.1 | |
| No | 4 | 36.4 | 64 | 71.9 | |
