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Eradicating chancroid

open access: yesBulletin of the World Health Organization, 2001
Genital ulcers are important cofactors of HIV transmission in the countries most severely affected by HIV/ AIDS. Chancroid is a common cause of genital ulcer in all 18 countries where adult HIV prevalence surpasses 8% and is rare in countries with low ...
Steen Richard
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2023 Korean sexually transmitted infections guidelines for non-gonococcal bacterial infection (chlamydia, syphilis, etc.) by the Korean Association of Urogenital Tract Infection and Inflammation [PDF]

open access: yesInvestigative and Clinical Urology
Non-gonococcal sexually transmitted infections (STIs) include chlamydia, syphilis, and chancroids. Chlamydia is the most common STI caused by Chlamydia trachomatis and is mainly transmitted through sexual intercourse or vertical transmission at birth ...
Joongwon Choi   +8 more
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The protein degradation system encoded by hslUV (ClpYQ) is dispensable for the virulence of Haemophilus ducreyi in human volunteers [PDF]

open access: yesInfection and Immunity
Haemophilus ducreyi causes cutaneous ulcers in children who live in yaws-endemic countries and the genital ulcer disease chancroid. In the human host, H. ducreyi resides in an abscess and may need to resist both heat and oxidative stress, which result in
Kate R. Fortney   +5 more
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Balanitis Circumscripta Plasmacellularis in a Young Circumcised Male: A Case Report [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Medical Case Reports Journal
Omer A Alsulaiman,1 Ahmed A Alsaati,2 Nasser Mohammed Alsaif,1 Khalid M Al-Husain,1 Fatma A Al-Jindan,3 Bader N Algamdi1 1Department of Dermatology, College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia; 2Internal Medicine ...
Alsulaiman OA   +5 more
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Transmission of viable Haemophilus ducreyi by Musca domestica. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
Haemophilus ducreyi was historically known as the causative agent of chancroid, a sexually-transmitted disease causing painful genital ulcers endemic in many low/middle-income nations.
Haley D Stabile   +4 more
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The Diagnostic Accuracy of Syndromic Management for Genital Ulcer Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

open access: yesFrontiers in Medicine, 2022
Objectives: Genital Ulcer Disease (GUD) carries a significant disease burden globally. With limited access to diagnostics, the 2001 World Health Organization (WHO) sexually transmitted illnesses (STI) guidelines proposed a syndromic management algorithm ...
Andre J. W. Loh   +13 more
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Chancroid [PDF]

open access: yesArchives of Dermatology, 1989
This is the centenary of Ducreyi's discovery of the bacillus, Haemophilus ducreyi . 1 During the initial two decades following his discovery, at least a score of microbiologists and clinicians studied both the organism and the disease, chancroid. However, for the following seven decades, there was a dearth of interest, with fewer than 30 significant ...
G R, Kinghorn, B I, Duerden
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Dermatology Photo Quiz 2

open access: yesJournal of Clinical and Biomedical Sciences, 2023
40-year-old male, married, and sexually active gentleman, had un-protected sex with other woman, after 5 days, he noticed painful ulcers on his penis.
Rajashekar T S   +6 more
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Epidemiology of Haemophilus ducreyi Infections

open access: yesEmerging Infectious Diseases, 2016
The global epidemiology of Haemophilus ducreyi infections is poorly documented because of difficulties in confirming microbiological diagnoses. We evaluated published data on the proportion of genital and nongenital skin ulcers caused by H.
Camila González-Beiras   +4 more
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Brazilian Protocol for Sexually Transmitted Infections, 2020: infections that cause genital ulcers

open access: yesRevista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2021
Infections that cause genital ulcers are one of the themes comprising the Clinical Protocol and Therapeutic Guidelines for Comprehensive Care for People with Sexually Transmitted Infections, published by the Brazilian Ministry of Health in 2020.
Mauro Cunha Ramos   +4 more
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