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Hypervirulent Chlamydia trachomatis clinical strain is a recombinant between lymphogranuloma venereum (L(2)) and D lineages.
mBio - 1 Jan 2011
Somboonna Naraporn, Wan Raymond, Ojcius David M, Pettengill Matthew A, Joseph Sandeep J, Chang Alexander, Hsu Ray, Read Timothy D, Dean Deborah
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UNLABELLED: Chlamydia trachomatis is an obligate intracellular bacterium that causes a diversity of severe and debilitating diseases worldwide. Sporadic and ongoing outbreaks of lymphogranuloma venereum (LGV) strains among men who have sex with men (MSM) support the need for research on virulence factors associated with these organisms. Previous analyses have been limited to single genes or genomes of...
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