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CLINICAL EXPERIENCE AT CLEVELAND CITY HOSPITAL

GEORGE W. BINKLEY, M.D.; WILLIAM R. LOVE, M.D.; Walter F. Schwartz, M.D.; Joseph M. Hitch, Jr., M.D.; Grace A. Margard, A.B.

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1938;38(3):383-388.

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For the past six years lymphogranuloma venereum antigen has been prepared at the Cleveland City Hospital according to the method of Frei.¹ The specificity of this antigen is attested by cases reported from this hospital by DeWolf and Van Cleve,² Cole³ and Connor, Levin and Ecker⁴ and from other clinics by de Gregorio⁵ and Flandin and Turiaf.⁶

Recently there has been an opportunity to test some commercial Frei antigen⁷ made from "a saline suspension of killed lymphogranuloma virus in mouse brain." This antigen was used concomitantly with our own antigen and with an emulsion of normal mouse brain as a control. We have never used it alone for the diagnosis of lymphogranuloma venereum in new cases.

Our experience with commercial Frei antigen prepared from mouse brain according to the method of Grace and Suskind⁸ has been such that we are loath to . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
CLEVELAND

From the Department of Dermatology and Syphilology, Service of Drs. H. N. Cole and J. R. Driver, Cleveland City Hospital and Western Reserve University, School of Medicine.

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