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Genetic typing of Chlamydia trachomatis affirms data collection.
2003 MAR 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- 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 events, on the basis of molecular data, and proposed transmission events, on the basis of sexual network data."
"Discordant results appeared to occur when a portion of the network contained potential core group members or in areas where contact tracing is difficult to carry out. The agreement between the molecular and epidemiologic data ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Genetic typing of Chlamydia trachomatis affirms data collection.