Serotyping and genotyping of genital Chlamydia trachomatis isolates reveal variants of serovars Ba, G, and J as confirmed by omp1 nucleotide sequence analysis

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 345-351

  Morré, Servaas A ^a   Ossewaarde, Jacobus M ^b   Lan, Jar ^a   Van Doornum, Gerard J J ^c   Walboomers, Jan M M ^a   Maclaren, David M ^a   Meijer, Chris J L M ^a   Van Den Brule, Adriaan J C ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^c MUNICIPAL HEALTH SERVICE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; GENOTYPE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPING;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; PROKARYOTA; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 0031975945     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.36.2.345-351.1998     Document Type: Article

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