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A snapshot of Chlamydia trachomatis genetic diversity using multilocus sequence type analysis in an Australian metropolitan setting.
European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology - 1 Jul 2017
Danielewski J A, Phillips S, Kong F Y S, Smith K S, Hocking J S, Guy R, Fairley C K, Garland S M, Tabrizi S N
Abstract excerpt
High-resolution screening methodologies which enable the differentiation of Chlamydia trachomatis at the strain level, directly from clinical samples, can provide the detailed information required for epidemiological questions such as the dynamics of treatment failure. In addition, they give a detailed snapshot of circulating C. trachomatis genetic variation, data which are currently lacking for the Australian...
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