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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. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2458x2406, 2627 KB)Haemophilus ducreyi bacteria - the causative agent of chancroid - stained with Gentian Violet. ...
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// A00-A79 - Bacterial infections, and other intestinal infectious diseases, and STDs (A00-A09) Intestinal infectious diseases (A00) Cholera (A01) Typhoid and paratyphoid fevers (A010) Typhoid fever (A02) Other Salmonella infections (A03) Shigellosis (A04) Other bacterial intestinal infections (A040) Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli infection (A045) Campylobacter enteritis (A046) Enteritis due to Yersinia...
The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (commonly known by the abbreviation ICD) provides codes to classify diseases and a wide variety of signs, symptoms, abnormal findings, complaints, social circumstances and external causes of injury or disease. ...
The following is a list of codes for International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems. ...
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Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) — also known as sexually transmissible diseases, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), venereal diseases (VD), or infrequently, social disease — are diseases or infections that have a significant probability of transmission between humans by means of sexual contact, vaginal intercourse, oral sex, or anal sex. ...
Causes Chancroid is a bacterial infection caused by the fastidious Gram-negative streptobacillus Haemophilus ducreyi. It is a disease found primarily in developing countries, associated with commercial sex workers and their clientele. Phyla/Divisions Actinobacteria Aquificae Bacteroidetes/Chlorobi Chlamydiae/Verrucomicrobia Chloroflexi Chrysiogenetes Cyanobacteria Deferribacteres Deinococcus-Thermus Dictyoglomi Fibrobacteres/Acidobacteria Firmicutes Fusobacteria Gemmatimonadetes Nitrospirae Omnibacteria Planctomycetes Proteobacteria Spirochaetes Thermodesulfobacteria Thermomicrobia Thermotogae Bacteria (singular, bacterium) are a major group of living organisms. ...
An infection is the detrimental colonization of a host organism by a foreign species. ...
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Bacteria that are Gram-negative are not stained dark blue or violet by Gram staining, in contrast to Gram-positive bacteria. ...
Binomial name Haemophilus ducreyi A chancroid is an STD characterized by painful sores on the genitalia. ...
A developing country is a country with low average income compared to the world average. ...
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 their ecological association or shared risk of exposure, and biologically facilitated transmission of one infection by the other. This article is being rewritten at Circumcision/temp Circumcision is the removal of some or all of the prepuce or foreskin though often the frenulum is also excised. ...
Human immunodeficiency virus or HIV is a retrovirus that causes Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), a condition in which the immune system begins to fail, leading to life-threatening opportunistic infections. ...
Symptoms and signs
 Chancroid lesion on the penis due to haemophilus ducreyi infection. 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: Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (700x1071, 82 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Chancroid ...
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- Ranges in size dramatically from 1/8 inch to two inches (3 to 50 mm) across
- Is painful
- Has sharply defined, undermined borders
- Has irregular or ragged borders
- Has a base that is covered with a grey or yellowish-grey material
- Has a base that bleeds easily if traumatized or scraped
More specifically, the CDC's standard clinical definition for a probable case of chancroid includes all of the following: - Patient has one or more painful genital ulcers. The combination of a painful ulcer with tender adenopathy is suggestive of chancroid; the presence of suppurative adenopathy is almost pathognomonic.
- No evidence of Treponema pallidum is indicated by dark-field examination of ulcer or by a serologic test for Syphilis performed at least 7 days after the onset of ulcer.
- The clinical presentation is not typical of disease caused by human herpesvirus 2 (Herpes Simplex Virus), or result of culture for HSV is negative.
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. Binomial name Treponema pallidum Schaudinn & Hoffmann, 1905 Treponema pallidum is a gram-negative spirochaete bacterium and is considered to be metabolically crippled. ...
Syphilis is a sexually transmitted disease (STD) caused by a spirochaete bacterium, Treponema pallidum. ...
This article is about the virus. ...
Common locations in men (most common to least common) The Male Anatomy The foreskin or prepuce (a technically broader term that also includes the clitoral hood, the homologous structure in women) is a retractable double-layered fold of skin and mucous membrane that covers the glans penis and protects the urinary meatus when the penis is not erect. ...
The glans penis is the sensitive erectile head of the penis. ...
The glans penis is the sensitive erectile tip of the penis. ...
In some male mammals, the scrotum is a bag of skin and muscle containing the testicles. ...
Common locations 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. Parts of a vulva The external genital organs of the female are collectively known as the vulva (also sometimes called the pudenda). ...
The labia minora (nymphae) are two small cutaneous folds, situated between the labia majora, and extending from the clitoris obliquely downward, lateralward, and backward for about 4 cm. ...
The initial ulcer may be mistaken as a "hard" chancre, the typical sore of primary syphilis, as opposed to the "soft chancre" of chancroid. Primary syphilis is manifested after an incubation period of 10-90 days (average 21 days) after exposure with a primary sore. ...
Syphilis is a sexually transmitted disease (STD) caused by a spirochaete bacterium, Treponema pallidum. ...
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. The inguinal canal is a passage in the anterior abdominal wall which in men conveys the spermatic cord and in woman the round ligament. ...
Lymph nodes are components of the lymphatic system. ...
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.
Treatment CDC recommendation for Chancroid are Single oral dose of Azythromicin or Single IM dose of Ceftriaxone or Oral Erythromycin for 7 days. CDC is an abbreviation which can mean any of the following: Canucks Dot Com Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Communicable Disease Control Community of Democratic Choice, a group of nine Eastern-European states Change data capture, in data warehousing Clock Domain Crossing, or simply clock-crossing in computing Cedar...
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