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. 2006 Mar;55(Pt 3):301-308.
doi: 10.1099/jmm.0.46262-0.

Genotyping of Chlamydia trachomatis from clinical specimens in Taiwan

Min-Chih Hsu  1 , Pei-Yi Tsai  1 , Kow-Tong Chen  2 , Lan-Hui Li  3 , Chien-Chou Chiang  3 , Jih-Jin Tsai  4 , Liang-Yin Ke  4 , Hour-Young Chen  1 , Shu-Ying Li  1
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Genotyping of Chlamydia trachomatis from clinical specimens in Taiwan

Min-Chih Hsu et al. J Med Microbiol. 2006 Mar.

Abstract

This study was conducted to determine the prevalence and distribution of Chlamydia trachomatis genotypes in Taiwan. Urine and endocervical-swab samples were collected from two hospitals located in northern and southern Taiwan. The genotypes of a total of 145 samples positive for C. trachomatis were analysed by sequencing the omp1 gene and this was successful in 102 samples. Nine different C. trachomatis genotypes were identified. Genotype E was the most prevalent (22 %), followed by D and Da (19 %), F (16 %), J (15 %), K (11 %), G (11 %), H (6 %) and Ba (2 %). There was a geographical difference in the prevalence of genotype H (P < 0.018) between northern and southern Taiwan. Sequence mutation analysis by blast searching against GenBank reference sequences identified 12 genetic variants from a total of 102 omp1 gene sequences.

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