Article
[Genotype of C. trachomatis strains isolated in a region of Guinea-Bissau: Farim].
Revue internationale du trachome et de pathologie oculaire tropicale et subtropicale et de sante publique : organe de la Ligue contre le trachome avec la collaboration de l'International Organization against Trachoma et des organisation... - 1 Jan 1996
Borrego M J, Ferraz-Oliveira F, Fadia F, Torgal J, Catry M A
Abstract excerpt
In order to diagnose the trachoma we observed the eyes of 506 students aged between 6 and 14 years. 14,03% of these children presented follicular or intense trachomatous inflammation of the eye. The use of molecular biology methods (PCR + RFLP) over the conjonctival samples we had collected, led...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Antibodies, Bacterial
- Child
- Chlamydia trachomatis
- DNA, Bacterial
- Female
- Genotype
- Guinea-Bissau
- Humans
- Male
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length