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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Stothard DR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC88204 | biostudies-literature | 2001 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of clinical microbiology 20010701 7
Epidemiologic research requires identification of Chlamydia trachomatis serovars and detection of mixed infection. Antibody-based serotyping is unworkable when specimens are urine or vaginal swabs. We developed a reverse dot blot (RDB) to screen for multiple serotypes in these specimens. RDB yielded the predicted results on all artificially mixed samples and on seven of eight clinically mixed samples. ...[more]