Sequencing-based molecular typing of treponema pallidum strains in the Czech Republic: All identified genotypes are related to the sequence of the SS14 strain

Acta Dermato-Venereologica

Volumn 92, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 669-674

  Flasarová, Magdalena ^a   Pospíšilová, Petra ^a   Mikalová, Lenka ^a   Vališová, Zuzana ^a   Dastychová, Eliška ^a   Strnadel, Radim ^b   Kuklová, Ivana ^c   Woznicová, Vladana ^a   Zákoucká, Hana ^d   Šmajs, David ^a  

^a MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BRNO   (Czech Republic)

^c CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Macrolide resistance; Molecular typing; Nested PCR; Syphilis; Treponema pallidum

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; MACROLIDE; RNA 23S;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CZECH REPUBLIC; FEMALE; GENE ARP; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR TYPING; NONHUMAN; POLA GENE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYPHILIS; TMPC GENE; TP0136 GENE; TP0548 GENE; TPR GENE; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BASE SEQUENCE; CZECH REPUBLIC; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBOTYPING; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 23S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

EID: 84866931594     PISSN: 00015555     EISSN: 16512057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2340/00015555-1335     Document Type: Article

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