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High-resolution typing of Chlamydia trachomatis: epidemiological and clinical uses.
Current opinion in infectious diseases - 1 Feb 2015
de Vries Henry J C, Schim van der Loeff Maarten F, Bruisten Sylvia M
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW: A state-of-the-art overview of molecular Chlamydia trachomatis typing methods that are used for routine diagnostics and scientific studies. RECENT FINDINGS: Molecular epidemiology uses high-resolution typing techniques such as multilocus sequence typing, multilocus variable number of tandem repeats analysis, and whole-genome sequencing to identify strains based on their DNA sequence. These data...
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