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Screening of Volunteer Students in Yaounde (Cameroon, Central Africa) for Chlamydia trachomatisInfection and Genotyping of Isolated C. trachomatisStrains
- Source :
- Journal of Clinical Microbiology; September 2003, Vol. 41 Issue: 9 p4404-4407, 4p
- Publication Year :
- 2003
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Abstract
- ABSTRACTThe prevalence of Chlamydia trachomatisinfection was 3.78% out of 1,277 volunteer students screened by direct fluorescence assay and Cobas Amplicor PCR. The infection was associated with the nonuse or inconsistent use of condoms in women (P= 0.026) and a previous sexually transmitted infection in men (P= 0.023). The most frequent genotypes determined by sequencing the omp1genes of 25 clinical isolates were E (44%) and F (20%), and some strains harbored mutations, but E genotype strains did not.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00951137 and 1098660X
- Volume :
- 41
- Issue :
- 9
- Database :
- Supplemental Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Clinical Microbiology
- Publication Type :
- Periodical
- Accession number :
- ejs57781353
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1128/JCM.41.9.4404-4407.2003