TY - JOUR AU - Spaargaren, Joke AU - Fennema, Han S.A. AU - Morré, Servaas AU - de Vries, Henry J.C. AU - Coutinho, Roel T1 - New Lymphogranuloma Venereum Chlamydia trachomatis Variant, Amsterdam T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2005 VL - 11 IS - 7 SP - 1090 SN - 1080-6059 AB - 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 December 2003 and had rectal Chlamydia trachomatis infections. We found that symptomatic (73%) as well as asymptomatic (43%) patients were infected with a new C. trachomatis LGV variant. KW - Keywords: Chlamydia trachomatis KW - genotype KW - LGV KW - omp A gene KW - L2 variant KW - L2b KW - the Netherlands DO - 10.3201/eid1107.040883 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/11/7/04-0883_article ER - End of Reference