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

AUTOR(ES)

Ngandjio, Antoinette

FONTE

American Society for Microbiology

RESUMO

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.

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