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II. VIRUSES OF OCULAR IMPORTANCE

MAJOR PHILLIPS THYGESON

Arch Ophthal. 1943;29(4):635-661.

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LYMPHOGRANULOMA VENEREUM

In 1913 Durand, Nicolas and Favre¹¹⁶ published the first comprehensive description of lymphogranuloma venereum, which had previously been confused with tuberculosis, syphilis and other diseases. In 1925 Frei¹¹⁷ described the intradermal test which bears his name, in which an antigen prepared by sterilizing pus from unruptured buboes of lymphogranuloma venereum produces in persons who have or who have had the disease a specific inflammatory reaction. In 1930 Hellerström and Wassen¹¹⁸ demonstrated that the causal agent is a filtrable virus.

Lymphogranuloma venereum, also known as lymphogranuloma inguinale or lymphopathia venerea (um), is primarily a disease of the lymphatic system. In the male the principal lesion is inguinal adenitis ; in the female the characteristic lesions are elephantiasis of the external genitalia and chronic ulceration of the vulva, peritoneum, anus or rectum, leading to fistula and rectal stricture. A large number of extragenital manifestations have been described. Among . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
MEDICAL CORPS, ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES

Footnotes
Read in part before the Pacific Coast Oto-Ophthalmological Society, Portland, Ore., May 13, 1942.