Chlamydia trachomatis is a gram-negative, obligate intracellular bacterium that causes the most common sexually transmissible diseases in the world. Serovars L1, L2, L2a and L3 of C. trachomatis are the agents of lymphogranuloma venereum, a disease found in isolated groups of men who have sex with men (MSM) across Western Europe, North America, and Australia.
Category
Bacterial infectious disease
Brite
Human diseases in ICD-11 classification [BR:br08403]
01 Certain infectious or parasitic diseases
Predominantly sexually transmitted infections
Sexually transmissible infections due to chlamydia
1A80 Chlamydial lymphogranuloma
H00348 Lymphogranuloma venereum
Genome-based classification of infectious diseases [BR:br08401]
Bacterial infections
Infections caused by chlamydia
H00348 Lymphogranuloma venereum
