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Table 2 Overall mean genetic distances within and between disease groups

From: Chlamydia trachomatisdiversity viewed as a tissue-specific coevolutionary arms race

 

Nucleotide differences*

Genetic distance (%)*

Within-group means

  

   Ocular

133 (SE 10)

0.27 (SE 0.02)

   Genital (without E/F)

309 (SE 14)

0.63 (SE 0.03)

   Genital (with E/F)

460 (SE 13)

0.93 (SE 0.03)

   LGV

69 (SE 8)

0.14 (SE 0.02)

Between-group means

  

   Ocular/Genital (without E/F)

942 (SE 21)

1.91 (SE 0.04)

   Ocular/Genital (with E/F)

983 (SE 20)

2.00 (SE 0.04)

   Ocular/LGV

1,484 (SE 42)

3.02 (SE 0.08)

   LGV/Genital (without E/F)

1,241 (SE 36)

2.52 (SE 0.07)

   LGV/Genital (with E/F)

1,226 (SE 34)

2.49 (SE 0.07)

   Genital/E-F

673 (SE 16)

1.37 (SE 0.03)

  1. *Genetic distances were estimated in the concatenated approximately 50,000 bp/taxa.