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ALSON E. BRALEY, M.D.

Arch Ophthal. 1939;22(3):393-398.

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The association of inclusion blennorrhea of the newborn with a genital disease of the mother was first discussed by Fritsch, Hofstätter and Lindner.¹ They showed that the secretion from the vagina of a mother whose baby had inclusion blennorrhea was infectious for the conjunctivas of baboons. Thygeson and Mengert² were able to infect the cervix of a baboon with material from a person with inclusion blennorrhea. In a previous communication³ it was shown that the inclusion bodies found in the conjunctival epithelial cells occurred in similar types of cells in the cervix. Lindner⁴ recommended the term "paratrachoma" for all diseases produced by the genital inclusion virus and suggested that they may be closely related to trachoma ; he⁵ expressed the belief that "paratrachoma" may represent an initial stage of mild trachoma that does not result in scarring or in pannus formation. Lindner⁴ inoculated the virus . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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Footnotes
Part of a study being conducted under a grant from the John and Mary R. Markle Foundation in the Department of Ophthalmology, State University of Iowa, College of Medicine, in cooperation with the Division of Health, Office of Indian Affairs, Department of Interior, Washington, D. C.

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