Table 1.
The ompA genotype distribution (%) of 144 clinical C. trachomatis strains from this study (2008) compared with the distribution of types in isolates from the same laboratory in 1996 (ompA PCR and restriction fragment length polymorphism, RFLP) and in 1987 (micro-immunofluorescence, MIF) in Finland.
| Sero-/genotype | 1987 (Saikku & Wang) [10] N = 51 | 1996 (Penttilä et al.) [11] N = 122 | 2008 (This material) N = 144 |
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| B | 2 | 2 | ND |
| E | 25 | 33 | 40 |
| D | 6 | 9 | 8 |
| ED | 25 | ND | ND |
| D/B | ND | 2 | ND |
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| total | 58 | 46 | 48 |
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| F | 10 | 22 | 28 |
| G | 4 | 13 | 13 |
| K | 8 | 2 | 5 |
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| total | 22 | 37 | 46 |
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| C | 0 | ND | ND |
| C/J | ND | 6 | ND |
| C-group | ND | 8 | ND |
| H | 6 | 3 | 3 |
| I | 6 | ND | 0 |
| J/Ja | 8 | ND | 2 |
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| total | 20 | 17 | 5 |
ND: not determined
C-group: genotypes A, C, H, I, Ia, J, K, and L3.