Emerging Infectious Diseases (Nov 2010)

Typing of Lymphogranuloma Venereum Chlamydia trachomatis Strains

  • Linus Christerson,
  • Henry J.C. de Vries,
  • Bertille de Barbeyrac,
  • Charlotte A. Gaydos,
  • Birgit Henrich,
  • Steen Hoffmann,
  • Julius Schachter,
  • Johannes Thorvaldsen,
  • Martí Vall-Mayans,
  • Markus Klint,
  • Björn Herrmann,
  • Servaas A. Morré

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1611.100379
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 16, no. 11
pp. 1777 – 1779

Abstract

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We analyzed by multilocus sequence typing 77 lymphogranuloma venereum Chlamydia trachomatis strains from men who have sex with men in Europe and the United States. Specimens from an outbreak in 2003 in Europe were monoclonal. In contrast, several strains were in the United States in the 1980s, including a variant from Europe.

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