Distribution of Chlamydia trachomatis omp A genotypes in patients attending a sexually transmitted disease outpatient clinic in New Delhi, India.

ABSTRACT:

Background & objectives

Limited data are available on the typing of Chlamydia trachomatis in India. Serovars D to K of C. trachomatis are chiefly responsible for urogenital infections. Thus, this study was conducted to determine the distribution of C. trachomatis serovars in patients with urogenital infections and to characterize omp A gene of the detected C. trachomatis isolates by sequence analysis. Presence of other co-infections was also evaluated.

Methods

Endocervical swabs were collected from 324 women and urethral swabs/urine were collected from 193 men attending the sexually transmitted diseases outpatient clinic. The samples were screened for C. trachomatis by cryptic plasmid PCR and omp A gene PCR. Genotyping was performed by PCR-restriction fragment length polymor

SUBMITTER: Rawre J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6702700 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature