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Characterization of a new isolate of Chlamydia trachomatis which lacks the common plasmid and has properties of biovar trachoma

1997; American Society for Microbiology; Volume: 65; Issue: 7 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1128/iai.65.7.2965-2969.1997

1098-5522

Aldo Farencena, Maurizio Comanducci, Manuela Donati, Giulio Ratti, Roberto Cevenini,

Urinary and Genital Oncology Studies

A Chlamydia trachomatis urethral isolate, alpha/95, yielding pgp3-negative but otherwise normal inclusions by immunofluorescence also gave negative results when pCT-homologous DNA was searched by PCR and Southern blotting. omp-1 sequence analysis identified alpha/95 as a new genotype B variant. These findings confirm that pCT is not required for chlamydial growth in vitro.