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Predicting phenotype and emerging strains among Chlamydia trachomatis infections.
Emerging infectious diseases - 1 Sept 2009
Dean Deborah, Bruno William J, Wan Raymond, Gomes João P, Devignot Stéphanie, Mehari Tigist, de Vries Henry J C, Morré Servaas A, Myers Garry, Read Timothy D, Spratt Brian G
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Chlamydia trachomatis is a global cause of blinding trachoma and sexually transmitted infections (STIs). We used comparative genomics of the family Chlamydiaceae to select conserved housekeeping genes for C. trachomatis multilocus sequencing, characterizing 19 reference and 68 clinical isolates from 6 continental/subcontinental regions. There were 44 sequence types (ST). Identical STs for STI isolates were...
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