CHANCROID

Abstract

This report deals with 175 patients with chancroid, 150 treated with sulfanilamide and 25 with sulfathiazole. There were 167 men and 8 women, 127 Negroes, 44 white persons, 3 Puerto Ricans and 1 Chinese. The average age was 30.2 years, the youngest patient being 18 and the oldest 58. The majority of the lesions were on the external genitalia (fig. 1). Two patients had ulcerations on the pubis, and 2 had them around the anus. Forty-eight had multiple lesions. The average duration of the lesions was thirty-one days. There were two of five days' and one of three years' duration. DIAGNOSIS The diagnosis of uncomplicated chancroid was based on the identification of Hemophilus ducreyi on smear from a characteristic ulcerative lesion and a positive reaction to Ducrey vaccine given intradermally. In addition, absence of Treponema pallidum on dark field examination and negative Wassermann and Frei reactions were required. The most