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Novel Chlamydia trachomatis strains in heterosexual sex partners, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
Emerging infectious diseases - 1 Nov 2014
Batteiger Byron E, Wan Raymond, Williams James A, He Linda, Ma Arissa, Fortenberry J Dennis, Dean Deborah
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Chlamydia trachomatis causes a high number of sexually transmitted infections worldwide, but reproducible and precise strain typing to link partners is lacking. We evaluated multilocus sequence typing (MLST) for this purpose by detecting sequence types (STs) concordant for the ompA genotype, a single-locus typing standard. We tested samples collected during April 2000-October 2003 from members of established...
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