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VENEREAL DISEASE IN A WAR ENVIRONMENT INCIDENCE AND MANAGEMENT
Author(s) -
HART GAVIN
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1975.tb82052.x
Subject(s) - incidence (geometry) , disease , medicine , disease management , physics , parkinson's disease , optics
The improved control over most infectious disease does not extend to venereal infections, and these now provide the major medical problem encountered in wartime. This factor should be recognized when staff and facilities are being provided for wartime medical services. Unique problems of management of both physical and psychological illness may result from promiscuity in a foreign land during war, and specialist venereologists are as necessary as surgeons and physicians. Streptomycin and kanamycin are effective drugs for the treatment of chancroid when this condition shows a poor response to tetracycline and sulphonamides. Cephalothin has proven useful in resistant cases. It is suggested that sustained preputial retraction, allowing cleaning and drying of underlying lesions, Is a useful adjunct in the management of severe penile ulceration.