CtGEM typing: Discrimination of Chlamydia trachomatis ocular and urogenital strains and major evolutionary lineages by high resolution melting analysis of two amplified DNA fragments

• Philip M. Giffard ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Philip M. Giffard, Patiyan Andersson

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

  * E-mail: phil.giffard@menzies.edu.au

  Affiliations Global and Tropical Health Division, Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, School of Psychological and Clinical Sciences, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3030-9127

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• Patiyan Andersson ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Philip M. Giffard, Patiyan Andersson

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Global and Tropical Health Division, Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia

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• Judith Wilson,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Global and Tropical Health Division, Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia

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• Cameron Buckley,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Centre for Clinical Research, The University of Queensland, Herston, Queensland, Australia

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• Rachael Lilliebridge,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Centre for Clinical Research, The University of Queensland, Herston, Queensland, Australia

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• Tegan M. Harris,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Child Health Division, Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia

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• Mariana Kleinecke,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Global and Tropical Health Division, Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia

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• Kerry-Ann F. O’Grady,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Children’s Health Research, Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

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• Wilhelmina M. Huston,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Life Sciences, University of Technology, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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• Stephen B. Lambert,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation UQ Child Health Research Centre, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

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• David M. Whiley,

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

  Affiliations Faculty of Medicine, Centre for Clinical Research, The University of Queensland, Herston, Queensland, Australia, UQ Child Health Research Centre, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, Pathology Queensland Central Laboratory, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

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• Deborah C. Holt

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

  Affiliations Global and Tropical Health Division, Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, School of Psychological and Clinical Sciences, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia

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