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SUBMITTER: Spaargaren J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3367337 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Spaargaren Joke J Schachter Julius J Moncada Jeanne J de Vries Henry J C HJ Fennema Han S A HS Peña A Salvador AS Coutinho Roel A RA Morré Servaas A SA
Emerging infectious diseases 20051101 11
We traced the Chlamydia trachomatis L2b variant in Amsterdam and San Francisco. All recent lymphogranuloma venereum cases in Amsterdam were caused by the L2b variant. This variant was also present in the 1980s in San Francisco. Thus, the current "outbreak" is most likely a slowly evolving epidemic. ...[more]