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==Overview== | |||
==Historical Perspective== | |||
*Chancroid has been known to humans since the time of ancient Greeks. | |||
*1852 - Leon Bassereau distinguished chancroid from syphilis (i.e. soft chancre from hard chancre). | |||
*1890s - Augusto Ducrey identified the causative agent of chancroid to be the be the bacterium ''Haemophilus ducreyi''. | |||
*1900 - Benzacon and colleagues isolated ''H. ducreyi''. | |||
*1970s - Hammond and colleagues developed selective media for ''H. ducreyi''.<ref>Chancroid. Wikipedia (July 16, 2015). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chancroid Accessed on January 6, 2016.</ref> | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||
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[[Category:Disease]] | [[Category:Disease]] | ||
[[Category:Sexually transmitted diseases]] | [[Category:Sexually transmitted diseases]] |
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Overview
Historical Perspective
- Chancroid has been known to humans since the time of ancient Greeks.
- 1852 - Leon Bassereau distinguished chancroid from syphilis (i.e. soft chancre from hard chancre).
- 1890s - Augusto Ducrey identified the causative agent of chancroid to be the be the bacterium Haemophilus ducreyi.
- 1900 - Benzacon and colleagues isolated H. ducreyi.
- 1970s - Hammond and colleagues developed selective media for H. ducreyi.[1]
References
- ↑ Chancroid. Wikipedia (July 16, 2015). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chancroid Accessed on January 6, 2016.