Chlamydia trachomatis nucleic acid detection accuracy

Chlamydia trachomatis can cause a variety of diseases in the human body, mainly reproductive system diseases and eye diseases. Chlamydia trachomatis is difficult to treat because it not only requires long-term medication treatment, but also there are many things to pay attention to during the treatment process. Therefore, you must make a good diagnosis to see if you are infected with Chlamydia trachomatis. The most common detection method for Chlamydia trachomatis is Chlamydia trachomatis nucleic acid detection. So what is the accuracy of Chlamydia trachomatis nucleic acid detection?

Chlamydia trachomatis is the main pathogen of sexually transmitted diseases, which can easily cause non-gonococcal urethritis, and many people are asymptomatic. Among the detection methods currently used in hospitals, the colloidal gold method and PCR method are more commonly used.

The PCR method is a nucleic acid diagnostic method with a high accuracy rate, but it is easy to detect dead Chlamydia trachomatis after treatment as positive, resulting in false positive results, which has little clinical significance.

The colloidal gold testing method is relatively fast, and patients can get the test results quickly. However, this method has a low accuracy rate, a high misdiagnosis rate, and is prone to delaying treatment and causing sequelae.

Guidance:

Both of the above methods involve taking swab samples from the patient's urogenital tract for testing. The sampling process is relatively painful, especially for male patients.

There is now a new nucleic acid test called the SAT test (for detecting Chlamydia trachomatis RNA). This method has a high accuracy rate and will not detect dead Chlamydia trachomatis as positive, which is of great clinical significance. It can also test the patient's urine samples and reduce the pain of sampling for the patient. It is recommended that patients use this method for Chlamydia trachomatis testing.

If you are not sure about the accuracy of nucleic acid testing for Chlamydia trachomatis, you can try both methods to confirm whether you are infected with Chlamydia trachomatis. In addition, many friends have certain misunderstandings about Chlamydia trachomatis. Don't think that you won't be infected with Chlamydia trachomatis if you don't have sex. You should know that low body immunity can also lead to the appearance of Chlamydia trachomatis.