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Successful Reinoculation into Humans

CAPT. C. G. MENDELSON; ALBERT M. KLIGMAN, M.D., Ph.D.

Arch Dermatol. 1961;83(4):559-562.

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The contagious nature of warts was proved 52 years ago when Ciuffo¹ transmitted the disease with an ultrafiltrate. Particles thought to be viral have been visualized by electron microscopy from the papilloma and "Myrmecia" type warts. Myrmecia warts have the following characteristics, which some think help differentiate them from verruca vulgaris:

1. Location—mostly plantar, palmar, pulp of digit
   
2. Symptoms—pain
   
3. Duration—89% present less than one year
   
4. Number of lesions—rarely more than 5 (6%)
   
5. Color—redness and swelling
   
6. Surrounding callus—thick hyperkeratotic collar
   
7. Edge—single and distinct
   
8. Curettage—impression of plunging into a hole which suddenly exudes the wart
   
9. Electron microscopy—virus-like particles
   

Author Affiliations
PHILADELPHIA

Present address: Fort Jackson, S.C. (Dr. Mendelson).

Department of Dermatology (Dr. Donald M. Pillsbury, Director), University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Aug. 1, 1960.

This study was supported by U.S. Army Grant Research Contract DA 49-007-MD-154.

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