MEDICAL NEWS
- 1 January 1968
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA
- Vol. 203 (1) , A23-30D
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1968.03140010081043
Abstract
Syphilis-Like Agent Found In Eyes Of Patients After 'Adequate' Therapy An organism morphologically indistinguishable fromTreponema pallidumis being found in patients who had received presumably adequate penicillin therapy for syphilis. Discovery of the organism in the aqueous humor of such patients has been made by investigators at several research centers in the United States and abroad. These investigators do not agree, however, that the organism is definitelyT pallidum. Nor is its relationship to the pathogenesis of the various neurological and ocular lesions presented by these patients clearly established. Implications For Therapy Nevertheless, these findings could have profound implications for therapy, and further clinical and experimental investigation is urgently needed, says Leslie C. Norins, MD, PhD, director of the Venereal Disease Research Laboratory, PHS Communicable Disease Center, Atlanta. The finding of spirochetes in the aqueous humor of the eye was first reported by J. Lawton Smith, MD, associateKeywords
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