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Volume 11, Number 7—July 2005
Dispatch

New Lymphogranuloma Venereum Chlamydia trachomatis Variant, Amsterdam

Joke Spaargaren*Comments to Author , Han S.A. Fennema*, Servaas A. Morré†, Henry J.C. de Vries‡, and Roel A. Coutinho§
Author affiliations: *Municipal Health Service, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; †VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; ‡Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; §National Institute of Public Health and Environment, Bilthoven, the Netherlands

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Table

Characteristics of men who have sex with men in retrospective study at sexually transmitted disease outpatient clinic in Amsterdam, the Netherlands*

Clinical data MMA+
MMA–
(2002 and 2003)
(2003)
C. trachomatis
C. trachomatis
L2b Non-LGV Total L2b Non-LGV Total
No. patients 32 12† 44 13 17‡ 30
Anal discharge 11 3 14 4 2 6
Genital ulcers 3 (L2b) 1 (Treponema pallidum) 4 0 1 (HSV-2) 1
Lymphadenopathy 4 0 4 2 2 4
Mean no. infections with sexually transmitted diseases 8.3 5.8 7.8 7 4.6 5.8
Known HIV+ 24 6 30 7 7 14
>10 leukocytes by Gram stain 26 3 39 3 6 9
C. trachomatis lgG ≥200 22 2 24 8 6 14
C. trachomatis lgG <200 10 18 11 15

*MMA, mucous membrane abnormalities; C. trachomatis, Chlamydia trachomatis; LGV, lymphogranuloma venereum; Ig, immunoglobulin.
†2 serum samples were not available for testing.
‡1 serum sample was not available for testing.
§Serogroup B, n = 5; intermediate serogroup, n = 5; serogroup C, n = 2.
¶Serogroup B, n = 10; intermediate serogroup, n = 1; serogroup C, n = 6.

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