An index of community ocular Chlamydia trachomatis load for control of trachoma.

NDE Alexander ORCID logo; AW Solomon; MJ Holland ORCID logo; RL Bailey ORCID logo; SK West; JF Shao; DCW Mabey ORCID logo; A Foster ORCID logo; (2005) An index of community ocular Chlamydia trachomatis load for control of trachoma. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 99 (3). pp. 175-177. ISSN 0035-9203 DOI: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2004.05.003
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Quantitative PCR (Q-PCR) technology has recently been applied to the measurement of ocular loads of Chlamydia trachomatis. We present an index called the community ocular C. trachomatis load (COCTL) which is similar to the community microfilarial load (CMFL) of onchocerciasis. Our index has the advantage of being scale-independent so that, for example, percentage changes are the same whether calculated per eye swab or per Q-PCR capillary. The COCTL for a population or subgroup is formed by adding the arbitrary concentration of 1 organism per ml to each individual Q-PCR quantification, calculating the geometric mean, and finally subtracting 1 per ml again. The use of the COCTL is illustrated in a study of trachoma in northern Tanzania. The COCTL is higher in people with clinical trachoma than those without (5.8 organisms per swab vs. 0.1), and in children aged six months to ten years than in the overall population (1.1 vs. 0.4). The COCTL index is potentially useful for sentinel sites, operational research and calibration of clinical measures of trachoma.

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