RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 The first case record of a female patient with bubonic lymphogranuloma venereum (LGV), serovariant L2b
JF Sexually Transmitted Infections
JO Sex Transm Infect
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd
SP 346
OP 347
DO 10.1136/sextrans-2011-050298
VO 88
IS 5
A1 Stephan P Verweij
A1 Sander Ouburg
A1 Harry de Vries
A1 Servaas A Morré
A1 Cees J W van Ginkel
A1 Hanna Bos
A1 Fré W Sebens
YR 2012
UL http://sti.bmj.com/content/88/5/346.abstract
AB Since 2003, a lymphogranuloma venereum epidemic has been reported in The Netherlands and other European countries. This epidemic is caused by Chlamydia trachomatis serovariant L2b and has only been seen in men having sex with men. The authors investigated a woman presenting with a bubo in her right groin. The authors showed by real-time PCR that the woman was infected with C trachomatis, serovariant L2b. This is the first reported case study of a female patient with bubonic lymphogranuloma venereum caused by serovariant L2b, which was probably contracted via her bisexual male partner.