Researches on the Aetiology of Trachoma

The Aetiology of Trachoma.

Experimental trachoma produced by cultured virus.

IN a previous paper (Collier, Duke-Elder, and Jones, 1958) we described the results of inoculating human volunteers with virus isolated by Collier and Sowa (1958) from a patient in the Gambia with trachoma. Three volunteers were inoculated by the conjunctival route, and in one, an anophthalmic man, an unequivocal infection was induced with all the conjunctival and laboratory signs of trachoma. ...

Trachoma inclusions and penicillin.

AFTER the release of penicillin for general medical use after the second world war, immediate interest was awakened in its possibilities in the therapy of trachoma. The subject was extensively investigated but results tended to be equivocal and attention became diverted to the newer antibiotics as these became available. In consequence, no definite assessment of the potentialities of penicillin...

Terramycin in trachoma.

Comparatively few papers have been published on the results achieved by treating trachoma with terramycin, but Bietti (1953), Bengisu Naci (1952), and Mitsui (1951) have published the results of their researches. The Japanese have been the most frequent users of terramycin in trachoma. Mitsui and others (1951) administered this antibiotic in seven hundred cases, 80 per cent. of which were repor...

Conjunctival Pockets.

SYMBLEPHARON is described by all authors discussing conjunctival diseases as adhesion between the palpebral and bulbar conjunctivae. Its aetiology is described as purulent conjunctivitis, diphtheritic conjunctivitis, trachoma, trauma, and so on. These factors do not always cause symblepharon, but may result in a very troublesome condition, apparently not mentioned in the literature, viz. conjun...