Abstract
Chlamydia trachomatis is the causative agent of a variety of chlamydial infections in humans with a predominantly (up to 80%) asymptomatic course of disease. In this study, a potentially novel C. trachomatis sequence type (ST) was detected in an asymptomatic man who has sex with a man among the nine STs revealed in urogenital swabs from individuals with chlamydia (n = 18). Phylogenetically this ST270 clustered separately as a single clade to an ST13-founded group of C. trachomatis strains and differed from the latter by a single allele, hflX. This finding emphasizes the importance of careful investigation of individuals with asymptomatic chlamydia infections.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | 100584 |
Journal | New Microbes and New Infections |
Volume | 31 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Sep 2019 |
Keywords
- Chlamydia trachomatis
- men-who-have-sex-with-men
- multilocus sequence typing
- ompA
- sequence type
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Microbiology
- Infectious Diseases