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Whole-Genome Enrichment and Sequencing of <i>Chlamydia trachomatis</i> Directly from Patient Clinical Vaginal and Rectal Swabs
2020-09-04
Abstract excerpt
Chlamydia trachomatis is the most prevalent cause of bacterial sexually transmitted infections (STIs) worldwide. U.S. cases have been steadily increasing for more than a decade in both the urogenital tract and rectum. C. trachomatis is an obligate intracellular bacterium that is not easily cultured, limiting the capacity for genome studies to understand strain diversity and emergence among various patient populat...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 59acea72-6463-503a-9b06-1109704e935b
- DOI
- 10.1101/2020.09.04.282459
