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Chancroid

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Chancroid is a genital ulcerative disease GUD). These diseases are common throughout the world and include syphilis, genital herpes, chancroid, lymphogranuloma venereum, and donovanosis. Chancroid is particularly common an Africa, Asia, and Latin America where its incidence may exceed that of syphilis as a cause of genital ulceration (1,2). However, chancroid is considered an uncommon sexually transmitted infection in the United States

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Morse, S.A., Trees, D.L., Totten, P.A. (1998). Chancroid. In: Woodford, N., Johnson, A.P. (eds) Molecular Bacteriology. Methods in Molecular Medicine™, vol 15. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1385/0-89603-498-4:309

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