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mydial infections and a few individuals were examined
because they were contacts of infected patients. Contact
tracing was not carried out consistently. The specimens
were frosen at -20°C immediately after collection and
sent within four weeks to the central laboratory where
they were cultured for chlamydia. Eighteen of the 61
patients that cultures were collected from before they
received antibiotic treatment, were infected with C.
trachomatis, or almost 30%. The prevalence of chla-
mydial infections was thus 200 per 100.000 inhabitants
but during the same period not a single case of go-
norrhoea was diagnosed in the district.
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