Pregledni rad
Tropical Venereal Diseases in the View of Population Migration
Aleksandra Basta-Juzbašić
; Medicinski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu
Sažetak
Tropical venereal diseases include ulcus molle, lymphogranuloma venereum and donovanosis. These diseases were a major diagnostic and therapeutic problem during the past centuries. Between 1928 and 1937, our Department registered 367 patients with ulcus molle. After the Second World War no case was recorded until 1978, when seven
sailors infected in South America and Asia were registered. Between
1981 and 1984, three patients with ulcus molle were registered, i.e. two in 1998 and one in 1999. Lymphogranuloma venereum (LGV) appeared more often between the two World Wars. There were 300 patients between 1928 and 1937. After that we did not register any patient with LGV till 1981. In the next three years, nine patients were registered, and after that, one patient in 1994. Donovanosis is endemic in Papua New Guinea, south India, Jamaica and South Africa. Our patient with donovanosis was infected in India in 1982. Today,
all three diseases can be successfully treated. Azithromycin, ciprofloxacin and ceftriaxone are very effective in ulcus molle, azithromycin and ciprofl oxacin in donovanosis, while doxycycline
remains the treatment of choice in lymphogranuloma venereum.
Ključne riječi
ulcus molle; lymphogranuloma venereum; donovanosis; epidemiology; treatment
Hrčak ID:
48297
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Datum izdavanja:
19.2.2009.
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