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LYMPHOGRANULOMA INGUINALE (DURAND-NICOLAS-FAVRE DISEASE)

1933; American Medical Association; Volume: 27; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1001/archderm.1933.01450040787008

2376-3760

C. C. Tomlinson,

Bartonella species infections research

The fourth venereal disease, most often spoken of as lymphogranuloma inguinale, or Durand-Nicolas-Favre disease, has been recognized as a definite clinical entity in Europe since 1913. Under the caption ``Nontuberculous Granulomatous Lymphadenitis,'' Hansmann, 1 in 1924, reported the first probable cases of this disease recognized in this country, from the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. Two of the patients were men and two women. In 1926, Pardo-Costello 2 reported three cases in Cuba, all in men. Hillsman, Wilshusen and Zimmerman 3 encountered this disease in a white man, aged 73, who had been sexually exposed to a Negress supposed to be ``diseased''; this case occurred in New Haven, Conn. In New York, a probable case, in a Negro, aged 27, was reported by Gross 4 in May, 1930. Wise 5 had a patient, a man, aged 21. in whom lymphogranuloma inguinale was proved to be present by Sulzberger, by means