Chlamydia trachomatis strains show specific clustering for men who have sex with men compared to heterosexual populations in Sweden, the Netherlands, and the United States

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 3548-3555

  Christerson, Linus ^a   Bom, Reinier J M ^b   Bruisten, Sylvia M ^b   Yass, Resha ^a   Hardick, Justin ^c   Bratt, Göran ^d   Gaydos, Charlotte A ^c   Morré, Servaas A ^e,f   Herrmann, Björn ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b DEPARTMENT OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Netherlands)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d STOCKHOLM SÖDER HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^e VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^f MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HETEROSEXUAL FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NETHERLANDS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OMPA GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWEDEN; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HETEROSEXUALITY; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; LYMPHOGRANULOMA VENEREUM; MALE; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NETHERLANDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SWEDEN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84867499035     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01713-12     Document Type: Article

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