What's the difference between cancroid and chancroid?
Cancroid
Definition:
(a.) Resembling a crab; pertaining to the Cancroidea, one of the families of crabs, including the genus Cancer.
(a.) Like a cancer; as, a cancroid tumor.
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Chancroid
Definition:
(n.) A venereal sore, resembling a chancre in its seat and some external characters, but differing from it in being the starting point of a purely local process and never of a systemic disease; -- called also soft chancre.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sixteen patients with clinical chancroid were studied prospectively; different culture media and sampling techniques from genital lesions were evaluated.
(2) In a retrospective study of 53 patients with chancroid seen at this clinic during this period, the results of smears were positive in 82% and of cultures in 84% (of those for whom cultures had been performed).
(3) These results showed that a 200 or 400 mg single dose of oral fleroxacin is an efficacious treatment for men with microbiologically confirmed chancroid who are not HIV-1 infected.
(4) Chancroid is a sexually transmitted disease characterized by genital ulceration.
(5) These strategies now permit localized introductions of chancroid into developed countries to be contained rapidly.
(6) This paper reviews the epidemiology, diagnosis and management of chancroid.
(7) dwarf, giant and phagedaenic chancroid were also seen.
(8) Direct inoculation by swab to CA + v from chancroidal ulcers is effective as an isolation technique for growth of H. ducreyi.
(9) Haemophilus ducreyi is the etiological agent of chancroid.
(10) One hundred and thirty six patients with chancroid were treated with four different treatment regimens; (A) Sulphaphenazole 1 g 12 hourly by mouth x 10 days (B) Inj streptomycin 1 g intramuscularly daily with sulphaphenazole 1 g 12 hourly orally x 10 days; (C) trimethoprim 200 mg 12 hourly by mouth x 7-10 days, and (D) erythromycin 500 mg 6 hourly orally x 7-10 days.
(11) Gonorrhea, chancroid, nongonococcal urethritis, and syphilis are still the major STDs.
(12) After 35 observations of the chancroid observed in the department of dermato-venereology of the University Hospital of Tlemcen (West Algeria) from August 1988 to December 1991, we are led to analyze the flare of this sexual transmitted disease.
(13) From June to November 1987 an outbreak of chancroid occurred in Winnipeg, the first in more than 10 years; 14 people (9 men, 5 women) were involved.
(14) Increasing resistance of Haemophilus ducreyi to antimicrobials necessitates further trials of new antimicrobial agents for treating chancroid.
(15) Overall, the accuracy of clinical diagnosis was 68% for single infections, 80% for chancroid, 55% for primary syphilis, 27% for lymphogranuloma venereum (LGV), and 22% for genital herpes.
(16) These MAbs may permit the development of rapid and efficient immunodiagnostics for chancroid.
(17) Chancroid is the most prevalent form of genital ulcer disease in developing countries and is undergoing a resurgence in industrialized countries.
(18) Chancroid is a sexually transmitted disease caused by Haemophilus ducreyi.
(19) This may explain the lack of specificity of the adsorption EIA in areas where chancroid is endemic.
(20) There was no evidence of syphilis, chancroid, or herpes simplex virus infection.