2012 National Guideline for the Management of Lymphogranuloma Venereum (LGV)
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2013 European guideline on the management of lymphogranuloma venereum.
UNLABELLED WHAT IS NEW IN THIS UPDATED GUIDELINE?: This is the update version of the 2010 European guideline on the management of lymphogranuloma venereum (LGV). New issues are: EPIDEMIOLOGY Based on clonal relatedness of prevalent LGV strains there is evidence that the LGV epidemic among men who have sex with men (MSM) in the Western world prevailed already in the United States in the 1980s ...
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