Factors influencing the induction of infertility in a mouse model of ascending genital tract infection Free

Abstract

In women, infections due to frequently result in long-term sequelae including chronic abdominal pain, ectopic pregnancy and infertility. In an attempt to characterise the pathogenesis of the infection, female C3H (H-2) mice were inoculated intravaginally with different doses of and then mated with proven male breeder mice. The inoculated mice developed a broad spectrum of clinical manifestations ranging from infertility to asymptomatic shedding. The dose inducing infertility in 50% of the mice was 10 inclusion-forming units of . In another group of mice sampled at intervals after intravaginal inoculation, was recovered from the upper genital tract starting at 24 h after infection. A higher percentage of animals infected during the luteal phase of the oestrous cycle had positive cultures from the middle and upper genital tract than when mice were inoculated during the follicular phase. These results indicate that rapid therapeutic intervention is required to avoid the sequelae resulting from genital infection, and suggest that hormonal factors play a role in the pathogenesis of the disease.

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