[Serology of Chlamydia trachomatis infections in tubal pregnancies. Apropos of 95 cases].

This study concerns the results of serology for Chlamydia trachomatis in 95 patients who were operated on for tubal pregnancies consecutively. The serology (Ig GAM) was carried out using a micro-immunofluorescence technique. It was considered positive when the levels were higher than or equal to 1/32, suggesting an old or continuing infection. It was positive in 66 cases out of the 95, which gives a percentage of 69.5. The positive serology was apparently significant (p less than 0.01) more often in tubal pregnancy than in the two control groups (sterile patients with normal tubes and normally delivered patients). Our results coincide with that in the literature. It therefore seems worth while to look systematically for chlamydial infection in the couple in cases of tubal pregnancy and, if found, to treat them.