Diagnosis Of Early Syphilis Research Articles

CLINICAL APPLICATION OF A STAIN FOR SPIROCHETES (KRAJIAN)

The diagnosis of syphilis in the seronegative stage, with its great importance to the patient, is dependent entirely on finding the causative organism in the primary lesion. At present the dark field method is the only one in general use, but most interested workers in the field admit that its use is not widespread enough. Stokes 1 stated: Identification of the Spirocheta pallida in secretions and tissues has sustained a regrettable delay in popularization in part through the intrinsic difficulty and inconvenience of the methods which we are obliged to employ. In order to determine if possible how many average practitioners employed the dark field in diagnosis of early syphilis, several years ago one of us (S. O. C.) sent a questionnaire to one hundred physicians, with the following interesting result: Although this is a small series, nevertheless it should give a fair indication of the practice in a metropolitan

Glandular puncture as a method of early diagnosis of syphilis. Serner and Schister (Russ. Vest. Dermat., 1924, No. 8)

Early recognition of syphilis is nowadays of particular importance because of the possibility of timely application of abortifacient treatment. However, the methods commonly used in the laboratory for the examination of sclerosis secretions do not give a positive answer in a number of cases, namely in locally treated sclerosis, in concomitant phimosis, and in mixed sclerosis. In order to make up for this deficiency, Serner and Schyster resort to the old method proposed back in 1905 by Noffmann - puncture of regional lymphatic glands.

A detailed account of methods of early diagnosis of syphilis in H.M.S. Hood

A detailed account of methods of early diagnosis of syphilis in H.M.S. Hood

THE WASSERMANN TEST PERFORMED WITH CHANCRE FLUID AS AN AID TO THE EARLY DIAGNOSIS OF SYPHILIS

In a previous communication,¹in which was reported the results of the Wassermann test performed with secretions, exudates and transudates in syphilis, the origin of the complement fixing antibody was discussed. Evidence was presented which justifies the belief that there may occur at the site of syphilitic lesions a local formation of the complement fixing antibody and that the Wassermann test when performed with fluid from these lesions may be of value in differential diagnosis. We wish here to present our results with the Wassermann test performed with fluid obtained from the surface of the chancre and to point out its value as an additional aid to the early diagnosis of syphilis. We performed the Wassermann test with the surface fluid obtained from fourteen chancres. This fluid was obtained by aspiration by means of a small rubber bulb attached to the end of a fine capillary pipet. An ordinary

The early diagnosis of syphilis in the Navy

The early diagnosis of syphilis in the Navy