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Chlamydia
Study data from F. Radouani and co-authors update knowledge of chlamydia
March 13th, 2008
"A new chlamydial test system, the Chlamycheck assay, which uses 4 purified recombinant antigens of Chlamydia trachomatis and Chlamydophila pneumoniae and one antigen of Chlamydophila psittaci, has been developed and commercialized," scientists writing in the Canadian Journal of Microbiology report. "We investigated the reactivities of the recombinant antigens with sera from a group of 30 patients with acute Chlamydia trachomatis infection, 88 patients consulting for sexually transmitted infections, and 46 patients with serological evidence of Chlamydophila pneumoniae infection. The results obtained from human and infected mouse sera suggest that Chlamycheck...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2008-03-13)
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