Background: Since 2003, an ongoing outbreak of lymphogranuloma venereum (LGV),
caused by Chlamydia trachomatis biovar L2b, has been reported among men who have sex …

Objectives Lymphogranuloma venereum (LGV) infections caused by Chlamydia trachomatis
L types have recently emerged in Europe among HIV-positive men having sex with men. Our …

Clin Microbiol Infect 2011; 17: E21–E23 Abstract Since 2003, outbreaks of
lymphogranuloma venereum (LGV) have been reported in European countries, North …

Chlamydia trachomatis, serovar L2, is the causative agent of lymphogranuloma venereum
(LGV), which during recent years has been responsible for various outbreaks reported …

The management of the ongoing lymphogranuloma venereum epidemic in industrialized
Western countries caused by Chlamydia trachomatis variant L2b still needs improvements in …

We retrospectively conducted a study of men who have sex with men who visited the
Amsterdam, the Netherlands, sexually transmitted diseases clinic from January 2002 to …

Abstract Background Infection due to Chlamydia trachomatis is the most common sexually
transmitted bacterial disease of global health significance, and especially the L-serovars …

We describe a change in the molecular epidemiology of Chlamydia trachomatis strains
involved in an outbreak of rectal lymphogranuloma venereum in France during January …

Abstract The French Reference Centre for chlamydiae uses two real-time PCRs targeting the
pmpH gene of Chlamydia trachomatis to differentiate between L strains and variant L2b …

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 …