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[Source: Eurosurveillance, full text: (LINK). Abstract, edited.]
Eurosurveillance, Volume 17, Issue 2, 12 January 2012
Rapid communications
Lymphogranuloma venereum: a hidden emerging problem, Barcelona, 2011
H Vargas-Leguas<SUP>1</SUP><SUP>,2</SUP>, P Garcia de Olalla (
)<SUP>1</SUP><SUP>,2</SUP>, M Arando<SUP>3</SUP>, P Armengol<SUP>3</SUP>, M J Barber?<SUP>3</SUP>, M Vall<SUP>3</SUP>, A Vives<SUP>3</SUP>, G Mart?n-Ezquerra<SUP>4</SUP>, M Alsina<SUP>5</SUP>, J Blanco<SUP>5</SUP>, C Mu?oz<SUP>5</SUP>, E Caballero<SUP>6</SUP>, A Andreu<SUP>6</SUP>, M Ros<SUP>1</SUP>, P Gorrindo<SUP>1</SUP>, A Dominguez<SUP>2</SUP><SUP>,7</SUP>, J A Cayl?<SUP>1</SUP><SUP>,2</SUP>
Citation style for this article: Vargas-Leguas H, Garcia de Olalla P, Arando M, Armengol P, Barber? MJ, Vall M, Vives A, Mart?n-Ezquerra G, Alsina M, Blanco J, Mu?oz C, Caballero E, Andreu A, Ros M, Gorrindo P, Dominguez A, Cayl? JA. Lymphogranuloma venereum: a hidden emerging problem, Barcelona, 2011. Euro Surveill. 2012;17(2)
ii=20057. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=20057
Date of submission: 12 December 2011 <HR>From the beginning of 2007 until the end of 2011, 146 cases of lymphogranuloma venereum (LGV) were notified to the Barcelona Public Health Agency. Some 49% of them were diagnosed and reported in 2011, mainly in men who have sex with men. Almost half of them, 32 cases, were reported between July and September. This cluster represents the largest since 2004. This article presents the ongoing outbreak of LGV in Barcelona.
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Eurosurveillance, Volume 17, Issue 2, 12 January 2012
Rapid communications
Lymphogranuloma venereum: a hidden emerging problem, Barcelona, 2011
H Vargas-Leguas<SUP>1</SUP><SUP>,2</SUP>, P Garcia de Olalla (
- Epidemiology Service, Public Health Agency of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- Biomedical Research Consortium of the Epidemiology and Public Health Network (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain
- Sexually Transmitted Infections Unit, Primary Health Centre Drassanes, Catalan Health Institute, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- Department of Dermatology. Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain
- Department of Dermatology. Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, Spain
- Microbiology Service, University Hospital Vall d?Hebron, Catalan Health Institute, Barcelona, Spain
- Department of Public Health, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Citation style for this article: Vargas-Leguas H, Garcia de Olalla P, Arando M, Armengol P, Barber? MJ, Vall M, Vives A, Mart?n-Ezquerra G, Alsina M, Blanco J, Mu?oz C, Caballero E, Andreu A, Ros M, Gorrindo P, Dominguez A, Cayl? JA. Lymphogranuloma venereum: a hidden emerging problem, Barcelona, 2011. Euro Surveill. 2012;17(2)
ii=20057. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=20057 Date of submission: 12 December 2011 <HR>From the beginning of 2007 until the end of 2011, 146 cases of lymphogranuloma venereum (LGV) were notified to the Barcelona Public Health Agency. Some 49% of them were diagnosed and reported in 2011, mainly in men who have sex with men. Almost half of them, 32 cases, were reported between July and September. This cluster represents the largest since 2004. This article presents the ongoing outbreak of LGV in Barcelona.