Nature Communications (Feb 2016)

Chlamydia trachomatis from Australian Aboriginal people with trachoma are polyphyletic composed of multiple distinctive lineages

  • Patiyan Andersson,
  • Simon R. Harris,
  • Helena M. B. Seth Smith,
  • James Hadfield,
  • Colette O’Neill,
  • Lesley T. Cutcliffe,
  • Fiona P. Douglas,
  • L. Valerie Asche,
  • John D. Mathews,
  • Susan I. Hutton,
  • Derek S. Sarovich,
  • Steven Y. C. Tong,
  • Ian N. Clarke,
  • Nicholas R. Thomson,
  • Philip M. Giffard

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10688
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Chlamydia trachomatis isolates causing a blinding disease (trachoma) form a single lineage that is different from the lineages causing urogenital infections. Here, Andersson et al. show however that trachoma isolates from Australia are more closely related to urogenital strains than to other trachoma isolates.