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CALVIN H. CHEN, M.D.; ROBERT B. GREENBLATT, M.D.; ROBERT B. DIENST, Ph.D.

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1948;58(6):703-715.

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IN RECENT years decided advances have been made in various aspects of the study of granuloma inguinale, such as in diagnosis,¹ cultivation of the etiologic agent,² experimental reproduction of the disease^1a and treatment.³ One hundred patients⁴ with laboratory-proved cases of granuloma inguinale who have been treated at the University of Georgia during the past twenty months formed the basis of this study.

The patients comprising this group were all Negroes. Their ages ranged from 18 to 70 years, and most of them were in the 20 to 40 year age groups. Sixty-five of them were men and 35, women (fig. 1). Though most of them had been previously treated with antimonial substances, one third of them had not had any form of treatment.

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As a rule patients gave a history of having had a nodule which had developed on the genitalia or elsewhere. This . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
AUGUSTA, GA.

Footnotes
Aided by a research grant from the United States Public Health Service.; From the University of Georgia School of Medicine.

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