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Chlamydia trachomatis genotypes A and B from urogenital specimens of patients in Spain: molecular characterization.
Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases - 1 Aug 2018
Piñeiro L, Isaksson J, Zapico M, Cilla G, Herrmann B
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OBJECTIVES: Chlamydia trachomatis ompA genotypes A and B, primarily associated with trachoma, were unexpectedly detected in urogenital samples of patients in Spain, a trachoma-free country. In this study, we aimed to explain this finding using analysis of organotropism-related genes and a multilocus sequence typing (MLST) technique. METHODS: C. trachomatis genotypes A or B were detected in 8/930 (0.9%) infection...
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