Genital Chlamydia infections in sexually active female adolescents: do we really need to screen everyone?
Several individual risk factors were strongly associated with C. trachomatis, but no single risk factor or combination of risk factors used for selective screening could identify more than 42% of infections in our population. These findings support earlier national recommendations and the need for universal screening of sexually active female adolescents.
These results suggest that IFN-λ3 polymorphism indirectly influences NK cell phenotype and function during acute HCV but other factors may act in concert to determine the outcome of the infection.