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Joan Stephenson, PhD
JAMA. 1998;280:1978.
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Just 2 weeks earlier, researchers at the University of California at Berkeley, the University of California at San Francisco, and Stanford University reported sequencing the entire Chlamydia trachomatis genome. Their findings appeared in the October 23 issue of Science, and details of the genome sequence were entered into a new NIAID-funded database (http://www.stdgen.lanl.gov) designed to accelerate research on sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).
The infection is a major cause of STDs worldwide, as well as the leading cause of preventable blindness in developing countries. Each year, more than 4 million cases of chlamydial infection occur in the United States alone, making it the country's most prevalent bacterial STD and a significant cause of pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) and such complications as PID-related infertility and tubal pregnancy. While effective treatment exists, the frequency of asymptomatic disease makes controlling the infection more difficult.
The new information is . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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