STD LYMPHOGRANULOMA VENEREUM (LGV): WHAT IS IT?
Lymphogranuloma venereum (LGV) is an infection caused by three types of the bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis. Other types of this bacterium cause chlamydia infections (see the section on chlamydia).
HOW COMMON IS IT? Although some types of the bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis are very common in the United States, the types that cause LGV are not, and fewer than a thousand people are diagnosed with LGV each year in this country.
LGV is common in the developing world, especially in Africa, Asia, and South America, and most people who live in the United States and contract the disease do so when they travel to another part of the world and have unprotected sex with an infected person. Poor people living in urban areas of the United States are also at higher risk. Having multiple sexual partners is a risk factor for acquiring LGV as it is for other sexually transmitted diseases.
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