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Ex Vivo Infection of Human Lymphoid Tissue and Female Genital Mucosa with Human Immunodeficiency Virus 1 and Histoculture
Published on: October 12, 2018
Granuloma inguinale (Donovanosis)
Sarita Maria de Fátima Martins de Carvalho Bezerra1, Marcio Martins Lobo Jardim, Valdir Bandeira da Silva
1STD outpatient clinic, Clinics Hospital, Federal University of Pernambuco (PE), Brazil. saritamartins@uol.com.br
Abstract:
The authors present images of two of the most common clinical forms of granuloma inguinale (donovanosis) in males and females. Donovanosis is considered a sexually transmitted disease that is endemic in tropical and subtropical regions of the world. Two microscopic images are also shown, one of a direct smear (the presence of Donovan bodies within large mononuclear cells identified using Giemsa stain) and the other of typical histological findings (rod-shaped Donovan bodies within a mononuclear histiocyte).
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