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DiseaseDisorder infobox | Name = Chancroid | ICD10 = A57 | ICD9 = 099.0 | Taxobox_begin | color = lightgrey | name = Haemophilus ducreyi <!-- Taxobox_image | image = | caption = --> Taxobox_begin_placement | color = lightgrey Taxobox_regnum_entry | taxon = Bacterium|Bacteria Taxobox_phylum_entry | taxon = Proteobacteria Taxobox_classis_entry | taxon = Gamma Proteobacteria Taxobox_ordo_entry | taxon = Pasteurellaceae|Pasteurellales Taxobox_familia_entry | taxon = Pasteurellaceae Taxobox_genus_entry | taxon = Haemophilus Taxobox_species_entry | taxon = H. ducreyi Taxobox_end_placement Taxobox section binomial botany | color = lightgrey | binomial_name = Haemophilus ducreyi | author = (Neveu-Lemaire 1921) David Hendricks Bergey|Bergey et al. 1923 Taxobox_end Chancroid is a sexually transmitted disease characterized by painful sores on the genitalia. Chancroid is known to be spread from one to another individual solely through sexual contact. Chancroid is a bacterium|bacterial infection caused by the organism Haemophilus ducreyi. It is a disease found primarily in developing countries, there associated with commercial sex workers and their clientele. Infection levels are low in the western world, typically around one case per two million of the population (Canada, France, UK and USA). Most individuals diagnosed with chancroid have visited countries or areas where the disease is known to occur frequently, although outbreaks have been observed in association with crack cocaine use and prostitution. Uncircumcised men are at three times greater risk than circumcised men for contracting chancroid from an infected partner. Chancroid is a risk factor for contracting HIV, due to the ecologic association or shared risk of exposure, and due to facilitated transmission of one by the other. After an incubation period of one day to two weeks, chancroid begins with a small bump that becomes an ulcer within a day of its appearance. The ulcer characteristically:
More specifically, the CDC's standard clinical definition for a probable case of chancroid includes all of the following:
About half of infected men have only a single ulcer. Women frequently have four or more ulcers, with fewer symptoms. The ulcers appear in specific locations, such as the coronal sulcus of the uncircumcised glans penis in men, or the fourchette and labia minora in women.
In women the most common location for ulcers is the labia majora. "Kissing ulcers" may develop. These are ulcers that occur on opposing surfaces of the labia. Other areas such as the labia minora, perianal area, and inner thighs may also be involved. The most common symptoms in women are pain with urination and pain with intercourse. The initial ulcer may be mistaken as a "hard" chancre, the typical sore of primary syphilis, as opposed to the "soft chancre" of chancroid. Approximately one third of the infected individuals will develop enlargements of the inguinal lymph nodes, the nodes located in the fold between the leg and the lower abdomen. Half of those who develop swelling of the inguinal lymph nodes will progress to a point where the nodes rupture through the skin producing draining abscesses. The swollen lymph nodes and abscesses are often referred to as buboes.
Category:Sexually-transmitted diseases Category:Proteobacteria <!--Disease--> <!--Bacterium--> fr:Chancre mou pt:Cancro mole This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Chancroid".
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