Chlamydia trachomatis Genotypes and the Swedish New Variant among Urogenital Chlamydia trachomatis Strains in Finland

Our aims were to genotype Chlamydia trachomatis strains present in urogenital samples and to investigate the occurrence of the Swedish new variant of C. trachomatis in Finland. We genotyped 160 C. trachomatis positive samples with ompA real-time PCR and analyzed 495 samples for the new variant. The...

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Main Authors:	Niemi, Suvi, Hiltunen-Back, Eija, Puolakkainen, Mirja
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2011
Online Access:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3124027/

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spelling	pubmed-31240272011-07-11 Chlamydia trachomatis Genotypes and the Swedish New Variant among Urogenital Chlamydia trachomatis Strains in Finland Niemi, Suvi Hiltunen-Back, Eija Puolakkainen, Mirja Research Article Our aims were to genotype Chlamydia trachomatis strains present in urogenital samples and to investigate the occurrence of the Swedish new variant of C. trachomatis in Finland. We genotyped 160 C. trachomatis positive samples with ompA real-time PCR and analyzed 495 samples for the new variant. The three most prevalent genotypes were E (40%), F (28%), and G (13%). Only two specimens containing bacteria with the variant plasmid were detected. It seems that in Finland the percentage of infections due to genotypes F and G has slightly increased during the last 20 years. Genotypes E and G appear to be more common, and genotypes J/Ja and I/Ia appear to be less common in Europe than in the USA. Although the genotype E was the most common genotype among C. trachomatis strains, the new variant was rarely found in Finland. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2011 2011-05-18 /pmc/articles/PMC3124027/ /pubmed/21747641 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/481890 Text en Copyright © 2011 Suvi Niemi et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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author	Niemi, Suvi Hiltunen-Back, Eija Puolakkainen, Mirja
spellingShingle	Niemi, Suvi Hiltunen-Back, Eija Puolakkainen, Mirja Chlamydia trachomatis Genotypes and the Swedish New Variant among Urogenital Chlamydia trachomatis Strains in Finland
author_facet	Niemi, Suvi Hiltunen-Back, Eija Puolakkainen, Mirja
author_sort	Niemi, Suvi
title	Chlamydia trachomatis Genotypes and the Swedish New Variant among Urogenital Chlamydia trachomatis Strains in Finland
title_short	Chlamydia trachomatis Genotypes and the Swedish New Variant among Urogenital Chlamydia trachomatis Strains in Finland
title_full	Chlamydia trachomatis Genotypes and the Swedish New Variant among Urogenital Chlamydia trachomatis Strains in Finland
title_fullStr	Chlamydia trachomatis Genotypes and the Swedish New Variant among Urogenital Chlamydia trachomatis Strains in Finland
title_full_unstemmed	Chlamydia trachomatis Genotypes and the Swedish New Variant among Urogenital Chlamydia trachomatis Strains in Finland
title_sort	chlamydia trachomatis genotypes and the swedish new variant among urogenital chlamydia trachomatis strains in finland
description	Our aims were to genotype Chlamydia trachomatis strains present in urogenital samples and to investigate the occurrence of the Swedish new variant of C. trachomatis in Finland. We genotyped 160 C. trachomatis positive samples with ompA real-time PCR and analyzed 495 samples for the new variant. The three most prevalent genotypes were E (40%), F (28%), and G (13%). Only two specimens containing bacteria with the variant plasmid were detected. It seems that in Finland the percentage of infections due to genotypes F and G has slightly increased during the last 20 years. Genotypes E and G appear to be more common, and genotypes J/Ja and I/Ia appear to be less common in Europe than in the USA. Although the genotype E was the most common genotype among C. trachomatis strains, the new variant was rarely found in Finland.
publisher	Hindawi Publishing Corporation
publishDate	2011
url	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3124027/
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Chlamydia trachomatis Genotypes and the Swedish New Variant among Urogenital Chlamydia trachomatis Strains in Finland

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