Chlamydia trachomatis Genotypes and the Swedish New Variant among Urogenital Chlamydia trachomatis Strains in Finland

Table 1

The ompA genotype distribution (%) of 144 clinical C. trachomatis strains from this study (2008) compared with the distribution of types in isolates from the same laboratory in 1996 (ompA PCR and restriction fragment length polymorphism, RFLP) and in 1987 (micro-immunofluorescence, MIF) in Finland.

Sero-/genotype	1987 (Saikku & Wang) [10] 𝑁=51	1996 (Penttilä et al.) [11] 𝑁=122	2008 (This material) 𝑁=144
B	2	2	ND
E	25	33	40
D	6	9	8
ED	25	ND	ND
D/B	ND	2	ND
total	58	46	48
F	10	22	28
G	4	13	13
K	8	2	5
total	22	37	46
C	0	ND	ND
C/J	ND	6	ND
C-group	ND	8	ND
H	6	3	3
I	6	ND	0
J/Ja	8	ND	2
total	20	17	5

ND: not determined
C-group: genotypes A, C, H, I, Ia, J, K, and L3.