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Descriptor English: Chancroid
Descriptor Spanish: Chancroide
Descriptor chancroide
Scope note: Enfermedad infecciosa aguda, localizada y autoinoculable, que se suele adquirir a través del contacto sexual. Está causada por HAEMOPHILUS DUCREYI. Es endémica en casi todo el mundo, especialmente en países tropicales y subtropicales y más común en puertos marinos y zonas urbanas que en zonas rurales.
Descriptor Portuguese: Cancroide
Descriptor French: Chancre mou
Tree number(s): C01.150.252.400.700.433.308
C01.150.252.734.201
C01.221.812.281.201
C01.778.281.201
C12.100.937.281.201
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D002602
Scope note: Acute, localized autoinoculable infectious disease usually acquired through sexual contact. Caused by HAEMOPHILUS DUCREYI, it occurs endemically almost worldwide, especially in tropical and subtropical countries and more commonly in seaports and urban areas than in rural areas.
Annotation: caused by Haemophilus ducreyi; do not confuse with CHANCRE, the primary lesion of syphilis
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CI chemically induced
CL classification
CN congenital
CO complications
DG diagnostic imaging
DH diet therapy
DI diagnosis
DT drug therapy
EC economics
EH ethnology
EM embryology
EN enzymology
EP epidemiology
ET etiology
GE genetics
HI history
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
MO mortality
NU nursing
PA pathology
PC prevention & control
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
PX psychology
RH rehabilitation
RT radiotherapy
SU surgery
TH therapy
TM transmission
UR urine
VE veterinary
VI virology
DeCS ID: 23964
Unique ID: D002602
NLM Classification: WC 155
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2006/07/05
Chancroid - Preferred
Concept UI M0003985
Scope note Acute, localized autoinoculable infectious disease usually acquired through sexual contact. Caused by HAEMOPHILUS DUCREYI, it occurs endemically almost worldwide, especially in tropical and subtropical countries and more commonly in seaports and urban areas than in rural areas.
Preferred term Chancroid



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