The DOI matches its Crossref record; 14 of the 14 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
Resurgence of Lymphogranuloma Venereum in Western Europe: An Outbreak of Chlamydia trachomatis Serovar L2Proctitis in The Netherlands among Men Who Have Sex with Men
Open accessAbstract
BACKGROUND: Lymphogranuloma venereum (LGV) is a sexually transmitted disease (STD) and is rare in the Western world. Recently, 3 men who have sex with men presented with LGV proctitis at the Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. We investigated a possible outbreak in a sexual network of men who have sex with men (MSM). METHODS: After active case finding, a total of 15 men presented and were investigated. Serum antibody titers to Chlamydia trachomatis were determined. Urine and rectum specimens were analyzed by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for the presence of C. trachomatis. C. trachomatis-positive specimens were genotyped to detect the specific C. trachomatis serovars. All subjects underwent routine STD screening. Sociodemographic, clinical, and endoscopic characteristics were evaluated. RESULTS: Thirteen subjects had high immunoglobulin (Ig) G and IgA titers to C. trachomatis, suggesting an invasive infection. Rectal specimens of 12 subjects were PCR-positive for C. trachomatis. All urine specimens were negative. Genotyping revealed serovars L(2) (n=8) and L(1) (n=1). An ulcerative proctitis was found in all subjects obtaining sigmoidoscopy (n=9). Eleven of 13 subjects with an LGV diagnosis were seropositive for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), 6 had another concomitant STD, and 1 had recently acquired a hepatitis C virus infection. Further sexual contacts were reported from The Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, the United Kingdom, and France. CONCLUSIONS: We revealed an outbreak of LGV proctitis among MSM in The Netherlands. The ulcerous character favors transmission of HIV, other STDs, and blood-borne diseases. From a public health perspective, it seems important to increase the awareness of possible LGV in MSM with symptomatic proctitis.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
Fleming, D. T., & Wasserheit, J. N. (1999) · Sexually Transmitted Infections · doi:10.1136/sti.75.1.3 · Cited by 2,271
Surveillance for asthma--United States, 1980-1999.
Mannino, D. M., Homa, D. M., Akinbami, L. J., Moorman, J. E., Gwynn, C., & Redd, S. C. (2002) · PubMed · Cited by 1,699
1998 Guidelines for Treatment of Sexually Transmitted Diseases: (547782006-001)
(1997) · PsycEXTRA Dataset · doi:10.1037/e547782006-001 · Cited by 621
Chlamydia trachomatis Proctitis
Quinn, T. C., Goodell, S. E., Mkrtichian, E., Schuffler, M. D., Wang, S.-P., Stamm, W. E., & Holmes, K. K. (1981) · New England Journal of Medicine · doi:10.1056/nejm198107233050404 · Cited by 253
Etiology of clinical proctitis among men who have sex with men.
Klausner, J. D., Kohn, R., & Kent, C. (2004) · Clinical Infectious Diseases · doi:10.1086/380838 · Cited by 129 · cited 1×
“MSM was recently discussed in this journal [1].”
BackgroundModification of Syphilitic Genital Ulcer Manifestations by Coexistent HIV Infection
Rompalo, A., Lawlor, J. P., SEAMAN, P., Quinn, T. C., Zenilman, J. M., & Hook, E. W. (2001) · Sexually Transmitted Diseases · doi:10.1097/00007435-200108000-00004 · Cited by 114
Increases in Gonorrhea and Sexual Risk Behaviors Among Men Who Have Sex With Men:
RIETMEIJER, C. A. M., Patnaik, J. L., Judson, F. N., & Douglas, J. M. (2003) · Sexually Transmitted Diseases · doi:10.1097/00007435-200307000-00006 · Cited by 92
Nieuwenhuis, R. F. (2003) · Sexually Transmitted Infections · doi:10.1136/sti.79.6.453 · Cited by 83
Self-citationAssociation of Hepatitis C Virus Infection with Sexual Exposure in Southern India
Marx, M. A., Murugavel, K. G., Tarwater, P. M., Srikrishnan, A. K., Thomas, D. L., Solomon, S., & Celentano, D. D. (2003) · Clinical Infectious Diseases · doi:10.1086/376639 · Cited by 72
BAUWENS, J. E., Orlander, H., Gomez, M. P., Lampe, M. F., Morse, S. A., Stamm, W. E., Cone, R. W., Ashley, R. L., Swenson, P. D., & Holmes, K. K. (2002) · Sexually Transmitted Diseases · doi:10.1097/00007435-200205000-00001 · Cited by 60
Cited by
Manifestations and management of lymphogranuloma venereum.
White, J. A. (2009) · Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases · doi:10.1097/qco.0b013e328320a8ae · Cited by 148
Pallawela, S. N. S., Sullivan, A. K., Macdonald, N., French, P., White, J., Dean, G., Smith, A., Winter, A. J., Mandalia, S., Alexander, S., et al. (2014) · Sexually Transmitted Infections · doi:10.1136/sextrans-2013-051401 · Cited by 39
Levy, I., Gefen-Halevi, S., Nissan, I., Keller, N., Pilo, S., Wieder-Finesod, A., Litchevski, V., Shasha, D., Kedem, E., & Rahav, G. (2018) · International Journal of Infectious Diseases · doi:10.1016/j.ijid.2018.08.004 · Cited by 37
Metadata
- Authors
- Nieuwenhuis, R. F., Ossewaarde, J. M., Götz, H. M., Dees, J., Thio, H. B., Thomeer, M. G. J., den Hollander, J. C., Neumann, M. H. A., & van der Meijden, W. I.
- Venue
- Clinical Infectious Diseases
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2004-10
- Volume
- 39
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 996-1003
- ISSN
- 1058-4838 (ISSN-L)
- 1537-6591
- OpenAlex
- W2145391341
- Cited by
- 346
- References
- 14
- FWCI
- 18.32
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Resurgence of Lymphogranuloma Venereum in Western Europe: An Outbreak of Chlamydia trachomatis Serovar L2Proctitis in The Netherlands among Men Who Have Sex with Men. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1086/423966
- The paper
- Nieuwenhuis, R. F., Ossewaarde, J. M., Götz, H. M., Dees, J., Thio, H. B., Thomeer, M. G. J., den Hollander, J. C., Neumann, M. H. A., & van der Meijden, W. I. (2004). Resurgence of Lymphogranuloma Venereum in Western Europe: An Outbreak of Chlamydia trachomatis Serovar L2Proctitis in The Netherlands among Men Who Have Sex with Men. Clinical Infectious Diseases. https://doi.org/10.1086/423966
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
