Patent ID: 8492092

Claim:
A method for the selective detection of Chlamydia trachomatis comprising: providing a biological sample; contacting the biological sample with a substance comprising an oligonucleotide probe set that comprises at least one oligonucleotide probe that is detectably labeled and has a nucleotide sequence length of about 10 to about 50 and at least two oligonucleotide primers, each of which has a nucleotide sequence length of about 10 to about 150 under conditions such that the probes and primers anneal to SEQ ID NO:1 at the location between about base pairs 1855 to 2156 on the gene; amplifying the target sequence between the two primers using a nucleic acid amplification reaction; and detecting the label as an indication of the hybridization of the probe set to the target sequence thereby indicating the presence or amount of Chlamydia trachomatis.