TY - JOUR T1 - Diagnosis of neonatal chlamydial conjunctivitis. JF - Archives of Disease in Childhood JO - Arch Dis Child SP - 894 LP - 895 DO - 10.1136/adc.65.8.894 VL - 65 IS - 8 AU - G Phillips AU - J S Forsyth AU - I A Harper Y1 - 1990/08/01 UR - http://adc.bmj.com/content/65/8/894.abstract N2 - Fifty seven babies with ophthalmia neonatorum had conjunctival smears examined by microscopy and bacterial culture, and by immunofluorescence, to find out which was the best method of diagnosing chlamydial conjunctivitis. The positive (33%) and negative (70%) predictive values of microscopy and culture were too low for us to accept it as an adequate method of detecting the presence of Chlamydia trachomatis. ER -