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Chlamydia trachomatis serovars of 80 cervical samples from 70 pregnant and nonpregnant Japanese women were typed by the nested polymerase chain reaction and restriction fragment length polymorphism method. The correlation between the subjective genital symptoms in 54 nonpregnant women and 3 serogroups, B/ D/E, F/G/K, and H/I/J was investigated. The most common serovars were D (29%), E (21%), and G (19%). The proportions of serovars B, F, H, I, J, and K were 7% to 4%. Compared with other results from other countries, our study found serovar D and G seemed to be higher, and serovar F, lower, in Japanese women. Abdominal pain was noted in 45% (14/31) of nonpregnant women with serovar B/D/E, 31% (5/16) with F/ G/K, and 0% (0/7) with H/I/J. These results suggested that serovars B/D/E may cause stronger (P<0.05) symptoms than serovars H/I/J.
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Takahashi, K., Yoshida, H., Hagiwara, T. et al. Serovar distributions of genitalChalamydia trachomatis in Japanese women, and its correlation with clinical symptoms. J Infect Chemother 4, 32–35 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02490064
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