%0 Journal Article %T Donovanose %A Bezerra %A Sarita Maria de F¨¢tima Martins de Carvalho %A Jardim %A Marcio Martins Lobo %A Silva %A Valdir Bandeira da %J Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia %D 2011 %I Sociedade Brasileira de Dermatologia %R 10.1590/S0365-05962011000300028 %X the authors present images of two of the most common clinical forms of granuloma inguinale (donovanosis) in males and females. donovanosis is considered a sexually transmitted disease that is endemic in tropical and subtropical regions of the world. two microscopic images are also shown, one of a direct smear (the presence of donovan bodies within large mononuclear cells identified using giemsa stain) and the other of typical histological findings (rod-shaped donovan bodies within a mononuclear histiocyte) %K communicable diseases %K genital diseases %K female %K genital diseases %K male %K sexually transmitted diseases %K sexually transmitted diseases %K bacterial. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0365-05962011000300028&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en