Lymphogranuloma Venereum: a Croatian Case Report of a Patient with Proctitis and Concurrent Cervical Lymphadenitis
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243. Watch Out! Syphilis Is Back – Case Series of Four Cases of Ocular syphilis Hesham Awadh, MD; Haresh Visweshwar, MD; Jacob Kilgore, MD and Kara Willenburg, MD; Internal Medicine, Marshall University – Joan C Edwards School of Medicine, Huntington, West Virginia, Internal Medicine, Marshall University – Joan C Edwards School of Medicine, Huntington, West Virginia, Medicine-Pediatrics, Marshall University – Joan C Edwards School of Medicine, Huntington, West Virginia, Infectious Diseases, Marshall University – Joan C Edwards School of Medicine, Huntington, West Virginia
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Chlamydia trachomatis in Cervical Lymph Node of Man with Lymphogranuloma Venereum, Croatia, 20141
We report an HIV-infected person who was treated for lymphogranuloma venereum cervical lymphadenopathy and proctitis in Croatia in 2014. Infection with a variant L2b genovar of Chlamydia trachomatis was detected in a cervical lymph node aspirate. A prolonged course of doxycycline was required to cure the infection.
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