Sclerosing granuloma inguinale.

Abstract

SUMMARY A 21-year-old European male patient presented with a penile sore of two months' duration. Donovan bodies were detected in a tissue smear from the lesion, which healed after treatment with co-trimoxazole. Sclerosing granuloma inguinale was diagnosed.

Tissue Section Donovan Bodies – Identification through Slow-Giemsa (Overnight) Technique

“…For the former several stains, namely methylene blue [4], Romanowski's [4], Leishman [5], Giemsa [6] and Wright's [7] have been used with uni formly good results. The latter is considered imperative to reaffirm the clinical diag nosis.…”