Meta-análisis sobre la prevalencia de Chlamydia trachomatis entre hombres jóvenes de 15 a 25 años

Abstract

The World Health Organization (WHO) refers to a considerable annual increase in new cases of Chlamydia in the adult population whose most recent data corresponds to the year 2005; however, this infectious process is characterized by the absence of symptoms that makes this pathology imperceptible, a situation that leads to a lack of knowledge of the percentage of young men between 15 and 25 years of age who have the aforementioned infection. The general objective was to determine the incidence of Chlamydia trachomatis infection in this population, under the hypothesis of high prevalence in the age range independent of the geographic region. A systematic review with metanalysis of the literature with was carried out, by consulting the databases OVID, PubMed, Scielo and Science Direct. The results after complying with the search protocol, showed six studies that met the parameters established for carrying out the present investigation, with respect to which the biases in them were evaluated, obtaining that only one study presented a considerable percentage of high risk while the others had a considerably high percentage of low risk of bias in the included studies. There was no evidence of variability regarding the symptoms caused by C. trachomatis infection, which is why said infection is considered a silent disease in most studies and symptoms are only observed in exceptional