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Tropical medicine
Donovanosis in Australia: going, going…
  1. F J Bowden,
  2. on behalf of the National Donovanosis Eradication Advisory Committee*
  1. Correspondence to:
 Francis J Bowden
 MD, National Donovanosis Eradication Advisory Committee, and Academic Unit of Internal Medicine and Canberra Sexual Health Centre, Australian National University Medical School, PO Box 11 Woden 2606 ACT, Australia; frank.bowdenact.gov.au

Abstract

In the 1990s donovanosis (or granuloma inguinale) had disappeared from most parts of the developed world. However, any practitioner working in the Northern Territory, far north Queensland, or the northern part of Western Australia would have been aware of the spectrum of morbidity associated with the condition in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population—ranging from mild genital ulceration to severe, disfiguring disease and disseminated, life threatening infection.

  • NNDSS, National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System
  • NT, Northern Territory
  • PCR, polymerase chain reaction
  • STI, sexually transmitted infections
  • donovanosis
  • granuloma inguinale
  • Australia

https://doi.org/10.1136/sti.2004.013227

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    • ↵* For members of committee see end of paper.

    • Series editor: David Lewis.