Multilocus sequence typing of genital chlamydia trachomatis in norway reveals multiple new sequence types and a large genetic diversity

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Gravningen, Kirsten ^a,b   Christerson, Linus ^c   Furberg, Anne Sofie ^a,b   Simonsen, Gunnar Skov ^a,b   Ödman, Kristina ^c   Ståhlsten, Anna ^c   Herrmann, Björn ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH NORWAY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NORWAY; OMPA GENE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; URBAN AREA; CHEMISTRY; CHLAMYDIASIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY;

CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS;

OMPA OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ADOLESCENT; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NORWAY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859089407     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0034452     Document Type: Article

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