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

Helena MB Seth-Smith; Juan C Galán; Daniel Goldenberger; David A Lewis; Olivia Peuchant; Cecile Bébéar; Bertille de Barbeyrac; Angele Bénard; Ian Carter; Jen Kok; Sylvia M Bruisten; Bart Versteeg; Servaas A Morré; Nicholas R Thomson; Adrian Egli; Henry JC de Vries

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Concern regarding the alleged spread of hypervirulent lymphogranuloma venereum Chlamydia trachomatis strain in Europe
Helena MB Seth-Smith^1,2 , Juan C Galán³ , Daniel Goldenberger¹ , David A Lewis^4,5 , Olivia Peuchant⁶ , Cecile Bébéar⁶ , Bertille de Barbeyrac⁶ , Angele Bénard⁷ , Ian Carter⁸ , Jen Kok^5,8 , Sylvia M Bruisten^9,10 , Bart Versteeg⁹ , Servaas A Morré^11,12 , Nicholas R Thomson^7,13 , Adrian Egli^1,2 , Henry JC de Vries^9,10,14
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Affiliations: ¹ Clinical Microbiology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland ² Applied Microbiology Research, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland ³ Servicio de Microbiología, Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal. CIBER en Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP). Instituto Ramón y Cajal de Investigación Sanitaria (IRYCIS), Madrid, Spain ⁴ Western Sydney Sexual Health Centre, Western Sydney Local Health District, Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia ⁵ Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity & Sydney Medical School-Westmead, Sydney, Australia ⁶ University of Bordeaux, INRA, USC ES 3671, French National Reference Centre for chlamydiae, Bordeaux, France ⁷ Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. Cambridge, United Kingdom ⁸ Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Laboratory Services, Institute of Clinical Pathology and Medical Research, Westmead Hospital, Westmead, New South Wales, Australia ⁹ STI Outpatient Clinic, Department of Infectious Diseases, Public Health Service Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands ¹⁰ Amsterdam Infection and Immunity Institute (AI&II), Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands ¹¹ Laboratory of Immunogenetics, Department of Medical Microbiology and Infection Control, VU University Medical Center Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands ¹² Institute for Public Health Genomics (IPHG), Department of Genetics and Cell Biology, Research Institute GROW, University of Maastricht, Maastricht, the Netherlands ¹³ London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom ¹⁴ Department of Dermatology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

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Citation style for this article: Seth-Smith Helena MB, Galán Juan C, Goldenberger Daniel, Lewis David A, Peuchant Olivia, Bébéar Cecile, de Barbeyrac Bertille, Bénard Angele, Carter Ian, Kok Jen, Bruisten Sylvia M, Versteeg Bart, Morré Servaas A, Thomson Nicholas R, Egli Adrian, de Vries Henry JC. Concern regarding the alleged spread of hypervirulent lymphogranuloma venereum Chlamydia trachomatis strain in Europe. Euro Surveill. 2017;22(15):pii=30511. https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2017.22.15.30511 Received: 06 Mar 2017; Accepted: 12 Apr 2017

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