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Isolation of a Virus

ALSON E. BRALEY, M.D.

Arch Ophthal. 1949;41(2):151-171.

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INCLUSION blennorrhea is a disease of the conjunctiva related to cervicitis in the female and urethritis in the male; it can be considered a virus venereal disease. The disease occurs most commonly in newborn infants but is also observed in adults. The adult gets the disease by coming in contact with the virus from the urethra or the cervix either by direct contamination or in swimming pools. The clinical manifestations of the disease have been reviewed repeatedly,¹ and it is the purpose of this report to present a study of the probable etiologic agent as a virus rather than to describe further the clinical syndrome.

Thygeson² has shown that the virus of inclusion blennorrhea is morphologically identical with the virus of trachoma except that the matrix of the inclusions of trachoma stain more uniformly with iodine than those of inclusion blennorrhea. The viruses of these two diseases are . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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Footnotes
Dr. Phillips Thygeson and Dr. Murray Sanders made valuable suggestions and criticisms.

This paper was submitted as a candidate's thesis for membership in the American Ophthalmological Society June 1947.

These studies were conducted under several grants. The major portion of the work was done under a grant from the Knapp Memorial Fund, at the Department of Ophthalmology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Some of the biopsies were conducted under a grant from the John and Mary R. Markle Foundation at the Department of Ophthalmology, State University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City.

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