Haemophilus ducreyi Cutaneous Ulcer Strains Are Nearly Identical to Class I Genital Ulcer Strains.

• Egile Nagusiak: Dharanesh Gangaiah (Egilea), Kristen M Webb (Egilea), Tricia L Humphreys (Egilea), Kate R Fortney (Egilea), Evelyn Toh (Egilea), Albert Tai (Egilea), Samantha S Katz (Egilea), Allan Pillay (Egilea), Cheng-Yen Chen (Egilea), Sally A Roberts (Egilea), Robert S Munson (Egilea), Stanley M Spinola (Egilea)
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• Argitaratua: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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BACKGROUND:Although cutaneous ulcers (CU) in the tropics is frequently attributed to Treponema pallidum subspecies pertenue, the causative agent of yaws, Haemophilus ducreyi has emerged as a major cause of CU in yaws-endemic regions of the South Pacific islands and Africa. H. ducreyi is generally su...