Chlamydia trachomatis serovars among strains isolated from members of rural indigenous communities and urban populations in Australia.
We genotyped Chlamydia trachomatis strains from 45 women or men living in either a rural indigenous community or in urban heterosexual communities. We found six different C. trachomatis serovars: E (n = 22; 48.9%), F (n = 10; 22.2%), J/Ja (n = 5; 11.1%), D/Da (n = 4; 8.9%), G (n = 3; 6.7%), and K (n = 1; 2.2%). The distribution of C. trachomatis serovars among members of the indigenous rural and the urban Australian communities appears similar to that in other Western countries.
Bandea
Claudiu I
CI
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Rd., Atlanta, GA 30333, USA.
Debattista
Joseph
J
Joseph
Kahaliah
K
Igietseme
Joseph
J
Timms
Peter
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Black
Carolyn M
CM
D000328:Adult; D001315:Australia / Q000453:epidemiology; D001425:Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D015373:Bacterial Typing Techniques; D002690:Chlamydia Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology*; D002692:Chlamydia trachomatis / Q000145:classification* / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D005260:Female; D005838:Genotype; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D017720:Molecular Epidemiology; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction / Q000379:methods; D012424:Rural Population; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D014505:Urban Population; D014556:Urine / Q000382:microbiology
D001425:Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins; C078167:OMPA outer membrane proteins