Vaginal swabs are appropriate specimens for diagnosis of genital tract infection with Chlamydia trachomatis.

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Published in J Clin Microbiol on August 01, 2003

Authors

Julius Schachter1, William M McCormack, Max A Chernesky, David H Martin, Barbara Van Der Pol, Peter A Rice, Edward W Hook, Walter E Stamm, Thomas C Quinn, Joan M Chow

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California 94110, USA. jsch@itsa.ucsf.edu

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