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

Table 2

The ompA genotype distribution (%) of 144 clinical C. trachomatis strains in Finland (this study) compared with distribution of types in C. trachomatis strains in Sweden, the Netherlands, Portugal and the USA.

Sero/ genotype	Finland (this material); 𝑁=144 ompA PCR & probes	Sweden [12]; 𝑁=237 ompA sequencing	Sweden [13]; 𝑁=678 ompA; sequencing	The Netherlands; [14] 𝑁=438 ompA PCR & RFLP	The Netherlands [15] 𝑁=407 ompA PCR & RFLP	Portugal [16] 𝑁=795 ompA sequencing	The USA [17]; 𝑁=11 454 serotyping	The USA* [18]; 𝑁=480/700 serotyping	The USA [19]; 𝑁=507 ompA sequencing	The USA [20]; 𝑁=102 OmpA sequencing
B/Ba	ND	0,4	1	ND	1	0,4	2	1	1	ND
E	40	47	39	40	33	40	32	30/33	30	28
D/Da/D-	8	14	9	12	13	13	16	17/19	14	23
total	48	61,4	49	52	47	53,4	50	48/53	45	51
F	28	17	21	21	23	17	18	20/17	19	11
G/Ga	13	3	11	8	9	11	2	3/4	4	1
K	5	9	9	4	2	1	4	3/5	5	1
total	46	29	41	33	34	29	24	26/26	28	13
C	ND	ND	ND	ND	ND	0,4	ND	ND	0	ND
H	3	3	2	4	8	3	3	2	1	3
I/Ia	0	3	1	4	7	6	10	12/9	14	15
J/Ja	2	4	7	4	3	7	11	13/10	12	19
total	5	10	10	12	18	16,4	24	27/21	27	37

RFLP: restriction fragment length polymorphism.
*Genotypes of women and men separately.
ND: not determined.