Substantial underdiagnosis of lymphogranuloma venereum in men who have sex with men in Europe: preliminary findings from a multicentre surveillance pilot

MJ Cole, N Field, R Pitt, AJ Amato-Gauci… - Sexually transmitted …, 2020 - sti.bmj.com
Objectives Understanding the public health impact of lymphogranuloma venereum (LGV) in
Europe is hampered by inadequate diagnostics and surveillance systems in many European …

Ongoing evolution of Chlamydia trachomatis lymphogranuloma venereum: exploring the genomic diversity of circulating strains

HMB Seth-Smith, A Bénard, SM Bruisten… - Microbial …, 2021 - microbiologyresearch.org
Lymphogranuloma venereum (LGV), the invasive infection of the sexually transmissible
infection (STI) Chlamydia trachomatis, is caused by strains from the LGV biovar, most …

Identification and characterization of mixed infections of Chlamydia trachomatis via high-throughput sequencing

J Zhao, J Shui, L Luo, C Ao, H Lin, Y Liang… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Precise genotyping is necessary to understand epidemiology and clinical manifestations of
Chlamydia trachomatis infection with different genotypes. Next-generation high-throughput …

Extra-rectal lymphogranuloma venereum in France: a clinical and molecular study

A Desclaux, A Touati, D Neau… - Sexually Transmitted …, 2018 - sti.bmj.com
Objectives To describe a series of extrarectal lymphogranuloma venereum (LGV) cases
diagnosed in France. Methods Consecutive LGV cases confirmed at the French Reference …

Emergence of the lymphogranuloma venereum L2c genovariant, Hungary, 2012 to 2016

F Petrovay, E Balla, T Erdősi - EuroSurveillance, 2017 - eurosurveillance.org
In eastern Europe, few countries have so far reported laboratory-confirmed cases of
lymphogranuloma venereum (LGV). Here we describe 22 LGV cases in men who have sex …

[HTML][HTML] Concern regarding the alleged spread of hypervirulent lymphogranuloma venereum Chlamydia trachomatis strain in Europe

HMB Seth-Smith, JC Galán, D Goldenberger… - …, 2017 - eurosurveillance.org
To the editor: A recent surveillance and outbreak report published in Eurosurveillance by
Petrovay et al. on the 'Emergence of the lymphogranuloma venereum L2c genovariant …

[HTML][HTML] Chlamydia trachomatis in cervical lymph node of man with lymphogranuloma venereum, croatia, 2014

B Gjurašin, SŽ Lepej, MJ Cole, R Pitt… - Emerging infectious …, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
We report an HIV-infected person who was treated for lymphogranuloma venereum cervical
lymphadenopathy and proctitis in Croatia in 2014. Infection with a variant L2b genovar of …

[HTML][HTML] Spread of a new Chlamydia trachomatis variant from men who have sex with men to the heterosexual population after replacement and recombination in …

M Rodríguez-Domínguez, JM González-Alba… - Clinical Microbiology …, 2017 - Elsevier
Objectives Sexually transmitted infections are frequently related to outbreaks in high-risk
populations due to the dense sexual networks. We wanted to determine the dissemination of …

Call for consensus in Chlamydia trachomatis nomenclature: moving from biovars, serovars, and serotypes to genovariants and genotypes

HJC de Vries, Y Pannekoek… - Clinical …, 2022 - clinicalmicrobiologyandinfection …
The International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes (ICSP) Subcommittee on the
Taxonomy of Chlamydiae (STC) was founded in 2010 to solve major taxonomy and …

[PDF][PDF] Prevalence of and risk factors for sexually transmitted infection with Chlamydia trachomatis to guide control measures: findings from the Slovenian National …

P Klepac, L Berlot, I Klavs - Acta Dermatovenerol Alp Pannonica Adriat, 2021 - acta-apa.org
Abstract Introduction: To inform Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) infection control, the objectives
of the second Slovenian National Survey of Sexual Lifestyles, Attitudes, and Health in 2016 …