Identification of a dominant Chlamydia trachomatis strain in patients attending sexual transmitted infection clinic and female sex workers in Tunisia using a high resolution typing method.

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BACKGROUND: The distribution of Chlamydia trachomatis genotypes in Tunisia was previously studied using the reverse hybridization method. In this study, we used multilocus sequence typing (MLST) to describe Chlamydia trachomatis genetic diversity among heterosexual populations in Tunisia. The obtained sequence types (STs) were compared with those from a heterosexual population from Amsterdam, the Netherlands....

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