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French situation concerning the Swedish Chlamydia trachomatis variant.
Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin - 1 Oct 2007
de Barbeyrac B, Raherison S, Cado S, Normandin F, Clerc M, Clairet V, Bébéar C, Goulet V
Abstract excerpt
In 2006, a plasmid deletion mutant of Chlamydia trachomatis was identified in Sweden that can not be detected with those commercial tests targeting the deleted area. In order to study the spread of this strain in France, a laboratory-based surveillance system was set up by the National Reference Centre for Chlamydiae and the Institut de Veille Sanitaire. Among 1,141 C. trachomatis-positive specimens from all over...
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