Culture-independent sequence analysis of Chlamydia trachomatis in urogenital specimens identifies regions of recombination and in-patient sequence mutations

Microbiology (United Kingdom)

Volumn 159, Issue PART 10, 2013, Pages 2109-2117

  Putman, Timothy E ^a   Suchland, Robert J ^b   Ivanovitch, John D ^a   Rockey, Daniel D ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIAL URETHRITIS; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE INDEPENDENT GENOME SEQUENCING; DNA PURIFICATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOMAGNETIC SEPARATION; IN VITRO STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENITALIA; HUMANS; IMMUNOMAGNETIC SEPARATION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84884795161     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: 14652080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.070029-0     Document Type: Article

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