Screening of volunteer students in Yaounde (Cameroon, Central Africa) for Chlamydia trachomatis infection and genotyping of isolated C. trachomatis strains

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 4404-4407

  Ngandjio, Antoinette ^a,b,c   Clerc, Maithe ^b   Fonkoua, Marie Christine ^a   Thonnon, Jocelyn ^a   Njock, Friede ^a   Pouillot, Regis ^a   Lunel, Françoise ^c   Bebear, Christiane ^b   De Barbeyrac, Bertille ^b   Bianchi, Anne ^c,d,e  

^a CENTRE PASTEUR DU CAMEROUN   (Cameroon)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^c INSTITUT ALFRED FOURNIER   (France)

^d Laboratoire Départemental   (France)

^e Laboratoire Départemental   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CAMEROON; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONDOM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OMP1 GENE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; STUDENT; VOLUNTEER;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; RICKETTSIALES;

EID: 0041417839     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.41.9.4404-4407.2003     Document Type: Article

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