Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to emphasize the incidence of lymphogranuloma inguinale on the Pacific Coast. Especially a of tropical regions, where it has been abundantly described as climatic bubo, the has recently been reported from many European maritime cities and from ports of the Great Lakes. In the confusion of names the should not be confounded with that termed lymphogranulomatosis, a term often applied to Hodgkin's disease, or with those termed ulcerative, pudendal disease and granuloma inguinale, presumably caused by protozoan infection. Complete and easily accessible descriptions of the are contained in the articles by De Wolf and Van Cleve, 1 Sulzberger and Wise 2 and, especially from the standpoint of pathology, Lillie. 3 Described briefly, the is a venereal infection caused by virus, showing a slight, transitory, mostly unobserved primary genital lesion of ulcerative or nodular type two or three weeks after

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