A serological test for granuloma inguinale.

A serological test for granuloma inguinale.

OBJECTIVES An indirect immunofluorescence technique applied to paraffin embedded tissue sections of lesions containing Donovan bodies was evaluated as a serological test for the diagnosis of granuloma inguinale. METHODS Sera from patients with proven granuloma inguinale, other sexually acquired genital ulcerations and blood donors from areas where granuloma inguinale is rarely encountered as ...

Granuloma Inguinale

(IRANULOMA INGUINAI,E is generatlly considered a tropical disease, but the movement of masses o1 young men to aindi from the tropics (luring the war years may be expecte(l to result in its extension to temperate climlates. Even before the war it hllad spread all over the United States of America, from New York to San Francisco, ind(l fromii Seattle to Nexv Orleans, appearing first at the gr-at ...

Donovanosis (Granuloma Inguinale, Granuloma Venereum)

and sewage is to be properly removed. Most soldiers have been brought up in an environment where these standards are the rule. The degree to which such standards can suddenly be furnished and maintained within large hurriedly constructed Army camps in wartime, and provided for the soldier in the field, and for the soldier in combat, was the monumental task described in this volume. It is a reco...

A Case of Granuloma Inguinale

on his penis with subsequent secondary symptoms, which subsided after taking some native drugs. History of present illness.?About 2i years ago the patient noticed an ulcer on the lateral aspect of his penis. He applied some paste given by a barber surgeon, but the ulcer extended on all sides in a circular way round the penis. Within six months the ulcer "had spread, involving the root of the pe...

Donovanosis (Granuloma Inguinale, Granuloma Venereum) (WHO)