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Highly discriminative genotyping of Chlamydia trachomatis using omp1 and a set of variable number tandem repeats.
Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases - 1 Jul 2008
Pedersen L N, Pødenphant L, Møller J K
Abstract excerpt
This article reports the development of a method for genotyping Chlamydia trachomatis, using PCR and sequencing of omp1, supplemented with three new variable number tandem repeat (VNTR) loci of C. trachomatis. Typeability, reproducibility and discriminatory power were assessed using four groups of samples: two groups (I and II) of C. trachomatis-positive patients and their positive partner(s), one group (III) of...
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