Lymphogranuloma venereum presenting as genital ulceration and inguinal syndrome in men who have sex with men in London, UK

Abstract

Clinical manifestations of LGV in MSM have not been confined to proctitis in the current outbreak in the UK and a small but significant number of inguinogenital cases of LGV have been observed. Epidemiologically, many of the cases described seem to have occurred at the periphery of the current MSM LGV epidemic. Clinicians need to be vigilant for these less common presentations of LGV among MSM and specific diagnostic tests should be done from the relevant lesions.