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Slow epidemic of lymphogranuloma venereum L2b strain.


ABSTRACT: 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.

SUBMITTER: Spaargaren J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3367337 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Slow epidemic of lymphogranuloma venereum L2b strain.

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]

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