Chancroid is a highly contagious sexually transmitted infection (STI) that causes genital ulcers. It is rarely seen in the United States, but chancroid, caused by the Haemophilus ducreyi bacteria, is ...

2 Herpetiform ulceration, a rare subtype of aphthous ulcer, presents with 5–100 tiny, grouped, or scattered aphthous lesions in the absence of HSV.3 This may occur in patients with Behçet disease, ...

A rectal ulcer is a break or injury in the mucous membrane that lines the rectum. While these ulcers are most often linked to a rare condition called solitary rectal ulcer syndrome (SRUS), there are ...

He’s calling for funding to fight the flesh-eating disease. Buruli ulcer, a skin disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium ulcerans, has been emerging in new areas across Victoria in recent ...

However, ignoring it will not make it disappear. One such lesser-known STI is chancroid, a curable infection that causes painful sores in the genital area and often goes undiagnosed because people ...

A picture of the upper arm of a patient with nocardiosis. Their arm is covered in skin ulcers. Skin ulcers on the arm of a patient infected with nocardiosis. Approximately one-third of all ...

Approximately one-third of all patients infected with nocardiosis develop skin ulcers or sores, instead of an internal infection. These skin lesions typically form across the hands, chest wall or ...

The time required for healing of aphthous ulcers has been correlated with the ability of antimicrobial mouthwashes to reduce the population of oral mucosal flora. [16] Double-blind, placebo ...

Table 1. Summary of Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trials of Topical Antibiotics, Antiseptics, and Corticosteroids for Treatment of Aphthous Ulcers [a] a T = active treatment, PC = placebo ...

Bruce Springsteen is getting candid about the physical toll that peptic ulcer disease took on him. The singer, 74, told SiriusXM’s E Street Radio host Jim Rotolo on Thursday that going back on ...

Background: Periodic fever, aphthous stomatitis, pharyngitis, and cervical adenitis (PFAPA syndrome), and Kawasaki disease (KD) are both considered to be disorders of the innate immune system, and the ...