Concordance of rectal and cervical Chlamydia trachomatis OmpA genotypes infecting women in Birmingham, Alabama

Sex Transm Dis. 2010 Jan;37(1):32-3. doi: 10.1097/OLQ.0b013e3181b3e4ee.

Abstract

We evaluated cervical and rectal Chlamydia trachomatis OmpA genotypes isolated from 22 women in Birmingham, AL, who were infected at both sites. Two women had mixed infection at one site. Of 20 women infected with a single OmpA genotype at each site, four (20%) had discordant genotypes at these sites.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Alabama / epidemiology
  • Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins / genetics*
  • Black or African American / statistics & numerical data
  • Chlamydia Infections / epidemiology*
  • Chlamydia Infections / ethnology
  • Chlamydia trachomatis / classification*
  • Female
  • Genotype
  • Humans
  • Prevalence
  • Rectal Diseases / epidemiology*
  • Rectal Diseases / ethnology
  • Rectal Diseases / microbiology
  • Retrospective Studies
  • Vaginosis, Bacterial / epidemiology*
  • Vaginosis, Bacterial / ethnology
  • Vaginosis, Bacterial / microbiology

Substances

  • Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins
  • OMPA outer membrane proteins