Is there evidence of the new variant chlamydia trachomatis in the United States?

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 352-353

  Won, Helen ^a   Ramachandran, Padmini ^a   Steece, Richard ^b   Van Der Pol, Barbara ^c   Moncada, Jeanne ^d   Schachter, Julius ^d   Gaydos, Charlotte ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BIOSURVEILLANCE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UNITED STATES;

CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; NORWAY; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; PREVALENCE; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SWEDEN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84876287340     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: 15374521     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OLQ.0b013e3182841786     Document Type: Article

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