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Isolation of the spirochetes in the perilymph despite prior antisyphilitic therapy: a case report.
- Source :
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Archives of otolaryngology (Chicago, Ill. : 1960) [Arch Otolaryngol] 1975 Feb; Vol. 101 (2), pp. 104-6. - Publication Year :
- 1975
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Abstract
- For the congenital syphilitic patient to develop sensorineural deafness is uncommon. For the congenital syphilitic patient to have persistence of treponemes after treatment is rare. To demonstrate viable organisms in the inner ear perilymph of the congenital syphilitic patient, despite treatment with penicillin, has not been recorded to date. This is a case report of such a patient.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Audiometry
Deafness etiology
Hearing Disorders diagnosis
Humans
Male
Myelography
Penicillin G Benzathine therapeutic use
Syphilis, Congenital complications
Syphilis, Congenital diagnosis
Syphilis, Congenital drug therapy
Hearing Disorders etiology
Labyrinthine Fluids microbiology
Perilymph microbiology
Syphilis, Congenital microbiology
Treponema pallidum isolation & purification
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0003-9977
- Volume :
- 101
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Archives of otolaryngology (Chicago, Ill. : 1960)
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 1092291
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archotol.1975.00780310026007