Urogenital Chlamydia trachomatis multilocus sequence types and genovar distribution in chlamydia infected patients in a multi-ethnic region of Saratov, Russia

• Valentina A. Feodorova ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: feodorovav@mail.ru (VAF); vlmotin@utmb.edu (VLM)

  Affiliations Laboratory for Molecular Biology of Chlamydia, Federal Research Center for Virology and Microbiology (FRCViM), Pokrov, Vladimir region, Russia, Laboratory for Molecular Biology and NanoBiotechnology, Federal Research Center for Virology and Microbiology (FRCViM), Branch in Saratov, Saratov, Russia, Department for Microbiology, Biotechnology and Chemistry, Saratov State Agrarian University (SSAU), Saratov, Russia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3827-407X

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• Svetlana S. Konnova,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Laboratory for Molecular Biology of Chlamydia, Federal Research Center for Virology and Microbiology (FRCViM), Pokrov, Vladimir region, Russia

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• Yury V. Saltykov,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliations Laboratory for Molecular Biology of Chlamydia, Federal Research Center for Virology and Microbiology (FRCViM), Pokrov, Vladimir region, Russia, Laboratory for Molecular Biology and NanoBiotechnology, Federal Research Center for Virology and Microbiology (FRCViM), Branch in Saratov, Saratov, Russia, Department for Microbiology, Biotechnology and Chemistry, Saratov State Agrarian University (SSAU), Saratov, Russia

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• Sergey S. Zaitsev,

  Roles Investigation, Software, Validation

  Affiliations Laboratory for Molecular Biology of Chlamydia, Federal Research Center for Virology and Microbiology (FRCViM), Pokrov, Vladimir region, Russia, Laboratory for Molecular Biology and NanoBiotechnology, Federal Research Center for Virology and Microbiology (FRCViM), Branch in Saratov, Saratov, Russia

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• Irina A. Subbotina,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation

  Affiliations Laboratory for Molecular Biology of Chlamydia, Federal Research Center for Virology and Microbiology (FRCViM), Pokrov, Vladimir region, Russia, Laboratory for Molecular Biology and NanoBiotechnology, Federal Research Center for Virology and Microbiology (FRCViM), Branch in Saratov, Saratov, Russia, Department for Microbiology, Biotechnology and Chemistry, Saratov State Agrarian University (SSAU), Saratov, Russia

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• Tatiana I. Polyanina,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation

  Affiliations Laboratory for Molecular Biology of Chlamydia, Federal Research Center for Virology and Microbiology (FRCViM), Pokrov, Vladimir region, Russia, Laboratory for Molecular Biology and NanoBiotechnology, Federal Research Center for Virology and Microbiology (FRCViM), Branch in Saratov, Saratov, Russia

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• Sergey S. Ulyanov,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Laboratory for Molecular Biology of Chlamydia, Federal Research Center for Virology and Microbiology (FRCViM), Pokrov, Vladimir region, Russia, Laboratory for Molecular Biology and NanoBiotechnology, Federal Research Center for Virology and Microbiology (FRCViM), Branch in Saratov, Saratov, Russia, Department for Medical Physics, Saratov State University (SSU), Saratov, Russia

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• Susanna L. Lamers,

  Roles Formal analysis, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Bioinfoexperts LLC, Thibodaux, Los Angeles, United States of America

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• Charlotte A. Gaydos,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (JHUScM), Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Thomas C. Quinn,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (JHUScM), Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Vladimir L. Motin

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: feodorovav@mail.ru (VAF); vlmotin@utmb.edu (VLM)

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), Galveston, Texas, United States of America

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