Volume 11, Number 11—November 2005
Dispatch
Slow Epidemic of Lymphogranuloma Venereum L2b Strain
Joke Spaargaren*, Julius Schachter†, Jeanne Moncada†, Henry J.C. de Vries*‡, Han S.A. Fennema*, A. Salvador Peña§, Roel A. Coutinho*¶, and Servaas A. Morré§
Table
Number of lymphogranuloma venereum (LGV) L2b variants identified in Chlamydia trachomatis DNA–positive rectal swabs in Amsterdam (2000–2005) and San Francisco (1979–1985)
| Location | Year* | No. L2b /no. samples |
|---|---|---|
| Amsterdam | 2000 | 2/67 |
| 2001 | 4/28 | |
| 2002 | 40/127 | |
| 2003 | 69/276 | |
| 2004 | 52/297 | |
| 2005 | 26/161 | |
| San Francisco | 1979 | 0/1 |
| 1980 | 0/0 | |
| 1981 | 2/8 | |
| 1982 | 10/29 | |
| 1983 | 5/9 | |
| 1984 | 0/3 | |
| 1985 | 1/1 |
*In 2002 and 2003, 45 LGV L2b variants of 109 isolates have been described in detail (5).
