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trachomatis strains have an extrachromosomal plasmid, which was sequenced to be a 7493-base pair plasmid. Recurrent UTI is not necessarily complicated individual episodes can be uncomplicated and treated as such. Chlamydia trachomatis has a genome that consists of 1,042,519 nucleotide base pairs and has approximately 894 likely protein coding sequences. CDC estimates that 2-3 million new cases occur every year 3. Due to lack of screening in some population and little public awareness there is substantial underreporting.
Uncomplicated UTI refers to acute cystitis or pyelonephritis in nonpregnant outpatient women without anatomic abnormalities or instrumentation of the urinary tract the term complicated UTI encompasses all other types of UTI. 1,030,911 Chlamydia trachomatis infection were reported in 2006, which increased to about 1.24 millions in the year 2009 2, 3. In this chapter, the term UTI denotes symptomatic disease cystitis, symptomatic infection of the bladder and pyelonephritis, symptomatic infection of the kidneys.
Much of the literature concerning UTI, particularly catheter-associated infection, does not differentiate between UTI and ASB. However, ASB occurs in the absence of symptoms attributable to the bacteria in the urinary tract and does not usually require treatment, while UTI has more typically been assumed to imply symptomatic disease that warrants antimicrobial therapy. Both UTI and ASB connote the presence of bacteria in the urinary tract, usually accompanied by white blood cells and inflammatory cytokines in the urine. The distinction between symptomatic UTI and ASB has major clinical implications. Thus, the term urinary tract infection encompasses a variety of clinical entities, including asymptomatic bacteriuria (ASB), cystitis, prostatitis, and pyelonephritis. UTI may be asymptomatic (subclinical infection) or symptomatic (disease).