Table 1.

Summary of evaluated amplification methods, target on chlamydial genome, product size and references of primer sequences

	Target	Product size	Primer sequences	Application in Germany
PCR 1	omp-1 (152 bp)	152 bp	Bobo and colleagues [24]	Kuipers and colleagues [17]
PCR 2	omp-1 (739 bp)	739 bp	Gérard and colleagues [27]	Freise and colleagues [9]
PCR 3	Plasmid	402 bp	Wilkinson and colleagues [23]	M. Rudwaleit, Benjamin Franklin Hsp., Berlin
PCR 4	16sRNA	141 bp	Bas and colleagues [18]
LCR	Plasmid	LCX®	Abbott	Kuipers and colleagues [17]

LCR = ligase chain reaction; omp-1 = major outer membrane protein 1.