TY - JOUR T1 - Stability of <em>Chlamydia trachomatis</em> RNA after long-term biobank storage JF - Sexually Transmitted Infections JO - Sex Transm Infect SP - 551 LP - 551 DO - 10.1136/sextrans-2019-054141 VL - 95 IS - 7 AU - Olivia Messina Rose AU - David N Fredricks AU - Olusegun O Soge AU - Fouzia Farooq AU - Gong Tang AU - Roberta Ness AU - Catherine L Haggerty Y1 - 2019/11/01 UR - http://sti.bmj.com/content/95/7/551.abstract N2 - Archived vaginal samples are frequently used in ancillary research projects, yet few studies have validated their use for nucleic acid amplification analysis after long-term storage. This study sought to examine the suitability of vaginal swab samples for Chlamydia trachomatis transcription-mediated amplification analysis after up to 20 years of biobank storage.Replication testing was conducted using a subset of vaginal swab samples originally obtained between May 1999 and June 2001 using … ER -