The health center concluded deficiencies in its infection control protocol led to contamination, which “created some false positives,” SHCS Director Margaret Trout told The Enterprise, though it was impossible to know when the problems began or how many results were tainted. 23, 2019, Amanjit Sekhon-Atwal, a medical staff supervisor at SHCS, mentioned in an email that the student health center identified a false positive chlamydia result.įor nearly a month, SHCS paused its in-house chlamydia testing to investigate the errant results. “Psychologically, it can be devastating.” On Sept. “If the patient did not have sex with somebody else, then the assumption is that their partner cheated on them,” said Ina Park, an STI researcher and professor at the UC San Francisco School of Medicine. If left untreated it can cause lasting damage that increases the risk of infertility and ectopic pregnancy.īecause the disease only spreads through sex, a chlamydia diagnosis can also have dramatic social consequences, especially for people in relationships they presumed were monogamous. Testing for it is fast and easy, and the disease can be effectively treated with antibiotics. Later that day, the laboratory discovered a positive chlamydia result for a second patient was false.Ĭhlamydia is one of the most common STIs in the world. Patient did not agree so test was rerun with a urine test and it was negative,” the meeting minutes state. “3 weeks ago a provider had a patient with a positive result for chlamydia (swab test). 15, SHCS leaders discussed the issue at a meeting.
The false result worried clinicians and medical staff. To test for chlamydia, Student Health and Counseling Services, which runs the health center, used a nucleic acid amplification test, an advanced technology that is typically highly accurate.
At the patient’s insistence, a doctor agreed to retest her before prescribing treatment. There was just one problem, medical staff recalled: she hadn’t had sex. In September 2019, a UC Davis student tested positive for the sexually transmitted infection chlamydia at the campus’ Student Health and Wellness Center.
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