@article{mbs:/content/journal/jmm/10.1099/jmm.0.46262-0, author = "Hsu, Min-Chih and Tsai, Pei-Yi and Chen, Kow-Tong and Li, Lan-Hui and Chiang, Chien-Chou and Tsai, Jih-Jin and Ke, Liang-Yin and Chen, Hour-Young and Li, Shu-Ying", title = "Genotyping of Chlamydia trachomatis from clinical specimens in Taiwan", journal= "Journal of Medical Microbiology", year = "2006", volume = "55", number = "3", pages = "301-308", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1099/jmm.0.46262-0", url = "https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/jmm/10.1099/jmm.0.46262-0", publisher = "Microbiology Society", issn = "1473-5644", type = "Journal Article", keywords = "STD, sexually transmitted disease", abstract = " This study was conducted to determine the prevalence and distribution of Chlamydia trachomatis genotypes in Taiwan. Urine and endocervical-swab samples were collected from two hospitals located in northern and southern Taiwan. The genotypes of a total of 145 samples positive for C. trachomatis were analysed by sequencing the omp1 gene and this was successful in 102 samples. Nine different C. trachomatis genotypes were identified. Genotype E was the most prevalent (22 %), followed by D and Da (19 %), F (16 %), J (15 %), K (11 %), G (11 %), H (6 %) and Ba (2 %). There was a geographical difference in the prevalence of genotype H (P<0·018) between northern and southern Taiwan. Sequence mutation analysis by blast searching against GenBank reference sequences identified 12 genetic variants from a total of 102 omp1 gene sequences.", }