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Complete Genome Sequence of Chlamydia trachomatis Ocular Serovar C Strain TW-3
Vítor Borges1, Miguel Pinheiro, Luís Vieira
1Reference Laboratory of Bacterial Sexually Transmitted Infections, Department of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Health, Lisbon, Portugal.
Genome Announcements
|January 25, 2014
Abstract:
Chlamydia trachomatis is the etiological agent of trachoma, the leading infectious cause of blindness worldwide. We report here the first complete and annotated genome of a C. trachomatis trachoma-causing serovar C strain (strain TW-3). The chromosome and plasmid are 1,043,554 bp and 7,501 bp in length, respectively.
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