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Bulletin 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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Atypical genital-predominant mpox mimicking chancroid and herpes simplex virus infection: a case report and literature synthesis [PDF]
BMC Infectious DiseasesBackground Mpox increasingly presents with atypical genital lesions that often mimic common sexually transmitted infections (STIs) such as herpes simplex virus infection and chancroid, creating diagnostic confusion.
Akhere E. Oshodin +3 more
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Balanitis Circumscripta Plasmacellularis in a Young Circumcised Male: A Case Report [PDF]
International Medical Case Reports JournalOmer 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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The protein degradation system encoded by hslUV (ClpYQ) is dispensable for the virulence of Haemophilus ducreyi in human volunteers [PDF]
Infection and ImmunityHaemophilus 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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Frontiers 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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Archives 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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Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 1990 At the present time, multidose therapy with either erythromycin or co-trimoxazole is regarded as the treatment of choice for the disease in most endemic areas. However, recently, single-dose therapies with compounds exhibiting suitable pharmacokinetic properties and good in vitro activity against Haemophilus ducreyi have yielded cure rates in excess of
Y, Dangor +3 more
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Journal 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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Direct Whole-Genome Sequencing of Cutaneous Strains of Haemophilus ducreyi
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2018 Haemophilus ducreyi, which causes chancroid, has emerged as a cause of pediatric skin disease. Isolation of H. ducreyi in low-income settings is challenging, limiting phylogenetic investigation.
Michael Marks +8 more
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Epidemiology of Haemophilus ducreyi Infections
Emerging 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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