Comparison of CDC and sequence-based molecular typing of syphilis treponemes: Tpr and arp loci are variable in multiple samples from the same patient

BMC Microbiology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Mikalová, Lenka ^a   Pospíšilová, Petra ^a   Woznicová, Vladana ^a   Kuklová, Ivana ^b   Zákoucká, Hana ^c   Šmajs, David ^a  

^a MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

arp gene; CDC typing; Molecular typing; Sequence based typing; Syphilis; tpr genes; Treponema pallidum

Indexed keywords

ARP PROTEIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA 23S; INTERLEUKIN 2; MESSENGER RNA; RNA 23S; TPR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; BLOOD SAMPLING; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC STABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; MOLECULAR TYPING; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SECONDARY SYPHILIS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEROLOGY; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOOD; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; MOLECULAR TYPING; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 23S; SKIN; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

EID: 84880872616     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-13-178     Document Type: Article

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