title: Recent developments in sexually transmitted diseases: chancroid--epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment.
abstract: The most important recent developments concerning chancroid have been in its epidemiology (a tremendous increase in the incidence of the disease in the United States over the past several years), diagnosis (better culture media), and treatment (several newer and older drugs that have been shown to be effective against chancroid in recent studies).
authors.affiliation: Department of Dermatology, Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York.
authors.forename: Y M
authors.initials: YM
authors.lastname: Felman
mesh_terms: D002602:Chancroid / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000453:epidemiology; D003470:Culture Media; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D005260:Female; D006191:Haemophilus ducreyi / Q000302:isolation & purification; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015231:Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Bacterial / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000453:epidemiology; D014481:United States
chemical_list: D003470:Culture Media