Lymphogranuloma Inggguinale in the Male in Liverpool, England, 1947-1954

Lymphographic studies in acute lymphogranuloma venereum infection.

“…Although the pathological changes were less marked than those in the inguinal nodes, it confirms the hypothesis of previous authors (Stokes, Beerman, and Ingraham, 1944;Galbraith, Graham-Stewart, and Nicol, 1957;Alergant, 1957) that iliac glands were usually involved in the inguinal lymphangitis.…”

“…Although some authors have reported that they were able to palpate these iliac glands (Alergant, 1957), our experience has been to the contrary. Palpation of these glands is extremely difficult through the pelvic organs and with the tenderness of the bubo.…”

The rôle of Chlamydia trachomatis in genital-tract and associated diseases.

“…These are systemic diseases in which the antigenic stimulus is considerable and the resulting antibody levels are high enough to be detected satisfactorily by this relatively insensitive test. Thus, high CF antibody titres have been reported in the sera of 98 %-100% of patients with LGV 33. 3 As a corollary, Schachter and colleagues35 reported never having recovered chlamy-…”