Emerging Infectious Disease ISSN: 1080-6059

Real-time Polymerase Chain Reaction To Diagnose Lymphogranuloma Venereum

Servaas A. Morré*¹

, Joke Spaargaren†¹, Johannes S.A. Fennema†, Henry J.C. de Vries†‡, Roel A. Coutinho‡§, and A. Salvador Peña*

Author affiliations: *VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; †Municipal Health Service, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; ‡Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; §National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, the Netherlands

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Diagnosis of lymphogranuloma venereum. MIF, microimmunofluorescence; STI, sexually transmitted infection; PCR, polymerase chain reaction; RFLP, restriction fragment length polymorphism; PAA, poly acrylamide; BLAST, basic local alignment search tool.

Figure. . Diagnosis of lymphogranuloma venereum. MIF, microimmunofluorescence; STI, sexually transmitted infection; PCR, polymerase chain reaction; RFLP, restriction fragment length polymorphism; PAA, poly acrylamide; BLAST, basic local alignment search tool.

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¹These authors contributed equally to this study.

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