Authors’reply: Concern regarding the alleged spread of hypervirulent lymphogranuloma venereum Chlamydia trachomatis strain in Europe

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Authors’reply: Concern regarding the alleged spread of hypervirulent lymphogranuloma venereum Chlamydia trachomatis strain in Europe
Fruzsina Petrovay¹ , Eszter Balla¹ , Timea Erdősi²
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Affiliations: ¹ Department of Bacteriology II., National Centre for Epidemiology, Budapest, Hungary ² Department of Phage and Molecular Typing, National Centre for Epidemiology, Budapest, Hungary

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Eszter Balla
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Citation style for this article: Petrovay Fruzsina, Balla Eszter, Erdősi Timea. Authors’reply: Concern regarding the alleged spread of hypervirulent lymphogranuloma venereum Chlamydia trachomatis strain in Europe. Euro Surveill. 2017;22(15):pii=30512. https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2017.22.15.30512 Received: 22 Mar 2017; Accepted: 12 Apr 2017

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