Monitoring the potential introduction of the Swedish Chlamydia trachomatis variant (swCT) in the Netherlands

S A Morré; A Catsburg; I M de Boer; J Spaargaren; H JC de Vries; J Schirm; P HM Savelkoul; J van Steenbergen; C M Swaan

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Monitoring the potential introduction of the Swedish Chlamydia trachomatis variant (swCT) in the Netherlands
S A Morré^1,2,3 , A Catsburg⁴ , I M de Boer⁵ , J Spaargaren⁶ , H JC de Vries^7,8 , J Schirm⁹ , P HM Savelkoul⁴ , J van Steenbergen⁵ , C M Swaan⁵
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Affiliations: ¹ Department of Pathology, Laboratory of Immunogenetics, Section Immunogenetics of Infectious Diseases, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands ² Academic Hospital Maastricht, Medical Microbiology, Maastricht, the Netherlands ³ Department of Infectious Diseases, City of Hope Medical Center and Beckman Research institute, Duarte, California, USA ⁴ Laboratory of Microbiology and Infection control, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands ⁵ National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, the Netherlands ⁶ Laboratory of Microbiology Twente Achterhoek, Enschede, the Netherlands ⁷ Sexually Transmitted Disease Outpatient Clinic, Municipal Health Service of Amsterdam, the Netherlands ⁸ Dermatology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands ⁹ Laboratory for Infectious Diseases, Groningen, the Netherlands

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Citation style for this article: Morré S A, Catsburg A, de Boer I M, Spaargaren J, de Vries H JC, Schirm J, Savelkoul P HM, van Steenbergen J, Swaan C M. Monitoring the potential introduction of the Swedish Chlamydia trachomatis variant (swCT) in the Netherlands. Euro Surveill. 2007;12(10):pii=739. https://doi.org/10.2807/esm.12.10.00739-en

Abstract

This report describes the actions of public health experts in cooperation with specialists in sexually transmitted diseases (STD), epidemiologists and (molecular) microbiologists to investigate the possible introduction of the swCT variant in the Netherlands: