Sexually Transmitted Disease

Genetic typing of Chlamydia trachomatis affirms data collection

Published in Women's Health Weekly, March 6th, 2003

According to a study from Canada, "sexual and social network analysis have been proposed as novel sexually transmitted disease control and research tools. Here, the concordance between chlamydia genotype data and a large sexual network constructed from routinely collected contact tracing data was examined."

"A sexual network was constructed for Manitoba, Canada, from province-wide contact tracing data," reported T. Cabral and coauthors, Manitoba Health, Cadham Province Laboratory.

"Positive chlamydia specimens from the same time period were collected and genotyped by omp1 DNA sequencing. A high degree of concordance was found between transmission...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (2003-03-06)

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