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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, September 2003, p. 4404-4407, Vol. 41, No. 9
0095-1137/03/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JCM.41.9.4404-4407.2003
Copyright © 2003, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Screening of Volunteer Students in Yaounde (Cameroon, Central Africa) for Chlamydia trachomatis Infection and Genotyping of Isolated C. trachomatis Strains

Antoinette Ngandjio,1,2,3 Maithe Clerc,2 Marie Christine Fonkoua,1 Jocelyn Thonnon,1 Friede Njock,1 Regis Pouillot,1 Françoise Lunel,3 Christiane Bebear,2 Bertille de Barbeyrac,2 and Anne Bianchi3,4*

Centre Pasteur du Cameroun, Yaounde, Cameroon,1 Laboratoire de Bactériologie, Centre National de Référence des Infections à Chlamydia, Université de Bordeaux II, Bordeaux,2 Institut Alfred Fournier, Paris,3 Laboratoire Départemental Conseil Général de Seine Saint Denis, Bondy, France4

Received 29 April 2003/ Returned for modification 8 June 2003/ Accepted 5 July 2003

The prevalence of Chlamydia trachomatis infection was 3.78% out of 1,277 volunteer students screened by direct fluorescence assay and Cobas Amplicor PCR. The infection was associated with the nonuse or inconsistent use of condoms in women (P = 0.026) and a previous sexually transmitted infection in men (P = 0.023). The most frequent genotypes determined by sequencing the omp1 genes of 25 clinical isolates were E (44%) and F (20%), and some strains harbored mutations, but E genotype strains did not.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Laboratoire Départemental, Conseil Général de Seine Saint Denis, 41 Av. de Verdun, 93140 Bondy, France. Phone: 33 (0)1 48 48 16 34. Fax: 33 (0)1 48 50 74 62. E-mail: abianchi{at} cg93.fr.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, September 2003, p. 4404-4407, Vol. 41, No. 9
0095-1137/03/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JCM.41.9.4404-4407.2003
Copyright © 2003, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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