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Zoonotic Chlamydiaceae species associated with trachoma, Nepal.
Emerging infectious diseases - 1 Dec 2013
Dean Deborah, Rothschild James, Ruettger Anke, Kandel Ram Prasad, Sachse Konrad
Abstract excerpt
Trachoma is the leading cause of preventable blindness. Commercial assays do not discriminate among all Chlamydiaceae species that might be involved in trachoma. We investigated whether a commercial Micro-ArrayTube could discriminate Chlamydiaceae species in DNA extracted directly from conjunctival samples from 101 trachoma patients in Nepal. To evaluate organism viability, we extracted RNA, reverse transcribed...
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