Fig 1.
Location of the sampling sites.
The map shows Zagora, a province in the Drâa-Tafilalet area of Morocco and the city of Al Qadarif, which is the capital of the state Al Qadarif in central Sudan. Direct link to the base layer map: https://www.statsilk.com/maps/download-free-shapefile-maps.
Table 1.
Primers and probes used for PCR reactions.
Table 2.
Baseline and trachoma grades of study participants in Zagora Province (Morocco) and Al Qadarif (Sudan).
Table 3.
Distributions of different C. trachomatis genovars among Sudanese and Moroccan children.
Table 4.
General profiles of omcB and plasmid copy numbers and BLAST-n analysis of the ompA gene for each Ct-positive sample.
Fig 2.
Bacterial loads and plasmid copy numbers for different Ct genovars.
Scatter dot-plots show the mean Ct load (a) and plasmid copy number (pORF2) (b) in samples positive for the B/Ba genovars were significantly higher than those for genovar A. Samples from Moroccan children are marked in green and samples from Sudanese children are marked in red. The vertical lines indicate the error bars that express the standard deviations, and the horizontal lines indicate the means. Statistical significance is indicated as follows: *p = 0·017.
Fig 3.
Bacterial loads for different Ct genovars among Moroccan and Sudanese children.
Scatter dot-plots show the mean Ct load for genovar A and B/Ba among Moroccan (a) and Sudanese children (b). Moroccan samples are marked in green and samples from Sudan are marked in red. The vertical lines indicate the error bars that express the standard deviations, and the horizontal lines indicate the means. Statistical significance is indicated as follows: *p = 0·011.