The silent epidemic of lymphogranuloma venereum inside the COVID-19 pandemic in Madrid, Spain, March 2020 to February 2021

Despite social distancing measures implemented in Madrid to prevent the propagation of SARS-CoV-2, a significant increase (57.1%; 28.5 to 38.5 cases/month) in cases of lymphogranuloma venereum was detected during the COVID-19 pandemic. This unusual scenario might have accelerated a shift in Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) epidemiology towards a higher proportion of L genotypes compared with non-L genotypes in CT-positive samples. Our data underscore the importance of surveillance of sexually transmitted infections during the pandemic, in particular among vulnerable populations.

• Publication year

  2021

• Venue

  Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

• Publication date

  2021-05-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2021.26.18.2100422PMID 33960288PMCID 8103729
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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