Fact sheets

Donovanosis webpage

Donovanosis fact sheet (PDF 302KB)

Public Health action

• Guidelines for Managing Sexually Transmitted infections. A guide for primary health care providers

• Therapeutic Guidelines: Antibiotic. Therapeutic Guidelines Limited: Melbourne

Notifiable disease data and reports

• Up-to-date Donovanosis notification data

• General infectious disease reports 

Additional sources of information

• Control of Communicable Diseases Manual

Case definition

Both confirmed cases and probable cases should be notified.

Confirmed case

A confirmed case requires laboratory definitive evidence AND clinical evidence.

Laboratory definitive evidence

1. Demonstration of intracellular Donovan bodies on smears or biopsy specimens taken from a lesion
OR

2. Detection of Calymmatobacterium granulomatis by nucleic acid testing of a specimen taken from a lesion

Clinical evidence

Clinically compatible illness involving genital ulceration.

Probable case

A probable case requires clinical evidence AND epidemiological evidence.

Clinical evidence

As with confirmed case.

Epidemiological evidence

1. A compatible sexual risk history in a person from an endemic area
OR

2. A compatible sexual risk history involving sexual contact with someone from an endemic area