Highly discriminative genotyping of Chlamydia trachomatis using omp1 and a set of variable number tandem repeats

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 644-652

  Pedersen, L N ^a   Podenphant L ^a   Moller J K ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Chlamydia trachomatis; Genotyping; omp1; VNTR

Indexed keywords

OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN 1;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS;

EID: 45249117680     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2008.02011.x     Document Type: Article

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