Chlamydia trachomatis from Australian Aboriginal people with trachoma are polyphyletic composed of multiple distinctive lineages
Chlamydia trachomatis isolates causing a blinding disease (trachoma) form a single lineage that is different from the lineages causing urogenital infections. Here, Andersson et al. show however that trachoma isolates from Australia are more closely related to urogenital strains than to other trachom...
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Main Authors: |
Patiyan Andersson,
Simon R. Harris,
Helena M. B. Seth Smith,
James Hadfield,
Colette O’Neill,
Lesley T. Cutcliffe,
Fiona P. Douglas,
L. Valerie Asche,
John D. Mathews,
Susan I. Hutton,
Derek S. Sarovich,
Steven Y. C. Tong,
Ian N. Clarke,
Nicholas R. Thomson,
Philip M. Giffard |
Format: | Article
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Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2016-02-01
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Series: | Nature Communications
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10688
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