Shankar EM

ORCID: 0000-0002-7866-9818 · 1 paper in corpus

other 2016

Prevalence of plasmid-bearing and plasmid-free Chlamydia trachomatis infection among women who visited obstetrics and gynecology clinics in Malaysia

BMC microbiology ·doi:10.1186/s12866-016-0671-1

BACKGROUND: The 7.5 kb cryptic plasmid of Chlamydia trachomatis has been shown to be a virulence factor in animal models, but its significance in humans still remains unknown. The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence and pote…