title: A Chlamydia trachomatis strain with a 377-bp deletion in the cryptic plasmid causing false-negative nucleic acid amplification tests.
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infection Control, Hospital of Halmstad, Halmstad, Sweden. torvald.ripa@lthalland.se
authors.forename: Torvald
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ripa
authors.forename: Peter A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Nilsson
mesh_terms: D002690:Chlamydia Infections / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology*; D002692:Chlamydia trachomatis / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics*; D017931:DNA Primers; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000032:analysis; D005188:False Negative Reactions; D006801:Humans; D021141:Nucleic Acid Amplification Techniques; D010957:Plasmids / Q000235:genetics*; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D017384:Sequence Deletion; D013548:Sweden / Q000453:epidemiology
chemical_list: D017931:DNA Primers; D004269:DNA, Bacterial