High-resolution genotyping of Lymphogranuloma Venereum (LGV) strains of Chlamydia trachomatis in London using multi-locus VNTR analysis-ompA genotyping (MLVA-ompA)

• Chloe Manning ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: c.e.manning@soton.ac.uk

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology, Division of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2428-7731

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• Colette O’Neill ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Colette O’Neill, Ian N. Clarke, Peter Marsh

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology, Division of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom

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• Ian N. Clarke ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Colette O’Neill, Ian N. Clarke, Peter Marsh

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

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology, Division of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom

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• Monica Rebec ,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ MR and PRC also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, Charing Cross Hospital, London, United Kingdom

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• Penelope R. Cliff ,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ MR and PRC also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Infection Sciences, St Thomas’ Hospital, London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6558-6039

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• Peter Marsh

  Contributed equally to this work with: Colette O’Neill, Ian N. Clarke, Peter Marsh

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

  Affiliation Public Health England, Porton Down, Salisbury, United Kingdom

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