What is Granuloma inguinale?
What is Granuloma inguinale?
- Granuloma inguinale: Granulomous disease spread sexually.
- Granuloma inguinale: Anogenital ulcers caused by Calymmatobacterium granulomatis as distinguished from lymphogranuloma inguinale (see LYMPHOGRANULOMA VENEREUM) caused by CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS. Diagnosis is made by demonstration of typical intracellular Donovan bodies in crushed-tissue smears.
Source - Diseases Database
- Granuloma inguinale: a venereal disease caused by a bacterium of the genus Calymmatobacterium; characterized by a pimply rash of the skin in the genital and groin region.
Source - WordNet 2.1
Granuloma inguinale: Introduction
Types of Granuloma inguinale:
Broader types of Granuloma inguinale:
How many people get Granuloma inguinale?
Incidence (annual) of Granuloma inguinale: 0.1 new cases per 100,000 population of donovanosis was notified in Australia 2002 (Yohannes K, Roche P, Blumer C et al. 2004, Australia’s Health 2004, AIHW)
Incidence Rate of Granuloma inguinale: approx 1 in 1,000,000 or 0.00% or 272 people in USA [about data]
Who gets Granuloma inguinale?
Gender Ratio for Granuloma inguinale: male predominance
Geography Profile for Granuloma inguinale: Occurs mostly in tropical areas.
How serious is Granuloma inguinale?
Complications of Granuloma inguinale:
see complications of Granuloma inguinale
What causes Granuloma inguinale?
Causes of Granuloma inguinale: see causes of Granuloma inguinale
Risk factors for Granuloma inguinale:
see
risk factors for Granuloma inguinale
What are the symptoms of Granuloma inguinale?
Symptoms of Granuloma inguinale:
see symptoms of Granuloma inguinale
Complications of Granuloma inguinale:
see complications of Granuloma inguinale
Can anyone else get Granuloma inguinale?
Contagion of Granuloma inguinale: Spread by sexual behavior and possibly other ways.
More information:
see contagiousness of Granuloma inguinale
Granuloma inguinale: Testing
Diagnostic testing: see tests for Granuloma inguinale.
Misdiagnosis: see misdiagnosis and Granuloma inguinale.
How is it treated?
Treatments for Granuloma inguinale:
see treatments for Granuloma inguinale
Research for Granuloma inguinale:
see research for Granuloma inguinale
Society issues for Granuloma inguinale
Hospitalization statistics for Granuloma inguinale:
The following are statistics from various sources about hospitalizations and Granuloma inguinale:
- 0% (1) of hospital consultant episodes were for granuloma inguinale in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 100% of hospital consultant episodes for granuloma inguinale required hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 0% of hospital consultant episodes for granuloma inguinale were for men in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 100% of hospital consultant episodes for granuloma inguinale were for women in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
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Organs Affected by Granuloma inguinale:
Organs and body systems related to Granuloma inguinale include:
Name and Aliases of Granuloma inguinale
Main name of condition: Granuloma inguinale
Class of Condition for Granuloma inguinale: bacterial
Other names or spellings for Granuloma inguinale:
donovanosis, Calymmatobacterium granulomatis, fourth venereal disease, granuloma pudendi, granuloma venereum, pudendal ulcer
Calymmatobacterium granulomatis, Donovania granulomatis, Donovanosis
Source - Diseases Database
Granuloma venereum, Granuloma inguinale
Source - WordNet 2.1
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