Cutaneous diphtheria masquerading as a sexually transmitted disease.
Indian J Dermatol Venereol Leprol
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2008 Mar-Apr; 74(2): 187
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in English
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| ID: sea-52097
ABSTRACT
A 41 year-old, sexually promiscuous, married male, an agricultural laborer by occupation, presented to our sexually transmitted diseases (STD) clinic with multiple ulcers over the scrotum and genitalia of 20 days' duration. Bacterial culture from swabs taken from the genital ulcer, grew organisms morphologically and biochemically characteristic of Corynebacterium diphtheriae. He made a complete and uneventful recovery after two weeks of therapy with antidiphtheria serum and crystalline penicillin. This case brings into light this hitherto unreported presentation of wound diphtheria mimicking a sexually transmitted genital ulcer disease and thus, underlines the importance of considering diphtheria as differential in atypical, long-standing genital ulcers.
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IMSEAR (South-East Asia)
Main subject:
Skin Diseases
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Humans
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Male
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Sexually Transmitted Diseases
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Adult
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Diagnosis, Differential
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Diphtheria
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Anti-Bacterial Agents
Type of study:
Diagnostic study
Language:
English
Journal:
Indian J Dermatol Venereol Leprol
Year:
2008
Type:
Article
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