New Chlamydia trachomatis L2 strains identified in a recent outbreak of lymphogranuloma venereum in Vienna, Austria

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 377-382

  Stary, Georg ^a   Meyer, Thomas ^b   Bangert, Christine ^a   Kohrgruber, Norbert ^a   Gmeinhart, Bernd ^a   Kirnbauer, Reinhard ^a   Jantschitsch, Christian ^a   Rieger, Armin ^a   Stary, Angelika ^c   Geusau, Alexandra ^a  

^a Universitatsklinik fur Dermatologie   (Austria)

^b Labor Prof Arndt and Partner   (Germany)

^c Outpatient Center for the Diagnosis of Infectious Venerodermatological Diseases   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN A;

ADULT; ANORECTAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOTYPE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; GENE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LYMPHOGRANULOMA VENEREUM; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; MIXED INFECTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN A GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE;

ADULT; AUSTRIA; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GENOTYPE; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; LYMPHOGRANULOMA VENEREUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 41149145259     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OLQ.0b013e31815d6df8     Document Type: Article

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