Publications
| rectal lymphogranuloma venereum surveillance in france 2004-2005. | lymphogranuloma venereum (lgv) is a sexually transmitted infection (sti) caused by chlamydia trachomatis strains belonging to the l1, l2 or l3 genotype. an alert about an outbreak of lgv among msm in the netherlands was published in january 2004. the first cases of rectal lgv in france were retrospectively diagnosed in march 2004 and sentinel surveillance for lgv was implemented in april 2004. most of the participating centres were located in the cities of paris and bordeaux. only confirmed rect ... | 2006 | 17075158 |
| sexually transmitted infections among victims attending a french sexual offence centre. | 2017 | 28827306 | |
| french situation concerning the swedish chlamydia trachomatis variant. | in 2006, a plasmid deletion mutant of chlamydia trachomatis was identified in sweden that can not be detected with those commercial tests targeting the deleted area. in order to study the spread of this strain in france, a laboratory-based surveillance system was set up by the national reference centre for chlamydiae and the institut de veille sanitaire. among 1,141 c. trachomatis-positive specimens from all over france, the new variant was only detected in one case. this case was a non-french r ... | 2007 | 17997924 |