A 5% ointment acycloguanosine was tried in the treatment of recurrent herpes simplex of the skin and genitalia in 48 patients. The treatment brought limitation of the process, relief of the symptoms, control of local manifestations and toxicity, accelerated epithelization, complete regression and disappearance of the eruption.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe analysis of curative and diagnostic work of AIDS counselling and diagnostic units (CDU) showed that during a year and a half 15,000 people had been screened, 27 of these were identified as persons infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and 4 persons identified at other places, were registered for followup. It was found that 51.3 percent of people were screened anonymously, reason for screening being epidemiological indications--history of blood transfusions, homosexual contacts, irregular sexual intercourse.
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