Treatment of Vincent's Stomatitis with Metronidazole.
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The 15 patients investigated were all Africans attending the Jane Furse Memorial Hospital in Transvaal. The diagnosis of Vincent's stomatitis was made initially on clinical evidence and on the typical bacteriological findings on examination of smears from the lesions-namely, the presence of large numbers of spirochaetes with the morphology of Borrelia vincentii and fusiform organisms. Of the 15 patients, 14 had ulcerative gingivitis, while the other had a Vincent's lesion on the right tonsil.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- British medical journal
دوره 1 5391 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1964