First detection of Chlamydia trachomatis LGV biovar in the Czech Republic, 2010-2011

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11130/12:8013 RIV/00216208:11120/12:43898046 RIV/00064211:_____/12:#0000137 RIV/75010330:_____/12:00009885

Result on the web

<a href="http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=20055" target="_blank" >http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=20055</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

First detection of Chlamydia trachomatis LGV biovar in the Czech Republic, 2010-2011

Original language description

We present four cases of proctitis in HIV-infected men having sex with men (MSM) living in the Czech Republic. The causative agent in all cases was the lymphogranuloma venereum (LGV) biovar of Chlamydia trachomatis. The spread of proctitis caused by C. trachomatis serovars L1-3 among MSM has been observed in several European countries, the United States and Canada since 2003. To our knowledge, no LGV cases in eastern Europe have been published to date. Between February 2010 and February 2011, four men who have sex with men (MSM) infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), who were under regular observation for HIV infection at the Bulovka University Hospital AIDS Center in Prague, Czech Republic, developed symptoms of acute proctitis. The most prominent symptom in all four patients was intensive rectal pain lasting on average 10 days (range: 7-21 days). Other symptoms included blood in the stool or pinkish mucous discharge, constipation and tenesmus. Case 1 also had one enlarged,

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

FN - Epidemiology, infection diseases and clinical immunology

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2012

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Eurosurveillance

ISSN

1560-7917

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

17

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

FR - FRANCE

Number of pages

3

Pages from-to

5-7

UT code for WoS article

000299169700002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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