Chancroid is a sexually transmitted infection that causes painful open sores, or chancroids, to develop in the genital area. It can also often cause the lymph nodes in the groin to swell and become ...

Chancroid is considered one of the classical ulcerative genital diseases that is caused by Gram-negative bacterial pathogen Haemophilus ducreyi. This disease is commonly observed (and sporadically ...

Chancroid is the name for the acute, ulcerative process caused by a facultative anaerobic bacterium Haemophilus ducreyi. It occurs on the anogenital area and is usually linked to obvious, suppurative ...

Have you ever noticed something unusual down there and instantly panicked, but felt too awkward to talk about it? When it comes to Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs), we often avoid the topic, ...

CHAPEL HILL – HIV plagues more than 25 million people in sub-Saharan Africa, according to the World Health Organization, and efforts to develop a vaccine against the virus have achieved limited ...

Background and Objectives: Cotrimoxazole has traditionally been used as first drug for treatment of chancroid in India. With reports of increasing resistance to the drug, this study was conducted to ...

Frank A. Plummer, Herbert Nsanze, Lourdes J. D'Costa, A. B. Ndugga Maggwa, Yves Girouard, Peter Karasira, W. L. Albritton and Allan R. Ronald Tetracyclines and sulfonamides are no longer effective for ...

THE Chancroid is a sexually transmitted genital ulcer disease which causes painful sores on the genitalia. This infection is spread from one individual to another solely through sexual contact. While ...

Genital sores around the vagina have several potential causes. The most common are sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including herpes. Genital sores due to STIs tend to be painful and itchy and ...

Researchers have reported success with a vaccine believed to protect against chancroid, a sexually transmitted disease. If approved for use, it could put an end to this devastating disease that has ...