Chancroid Specialists in Hingani, Nanded, Maharashtra

Treatment & Types of Chancroid in Hingani, Nanded, Maharashtra

Antibiotics: single-dose azithromycin, ceftriaxone, or a course of ciprofloxacin or erythromycin. Buboes may require needle aspiration.

Chancroid presents with characteristic painful genital ulcers, and cases are generally distinguished from other genital ulcer diseases like syphilis by ulcer appearance — chancroid ulcers have soft, ragged edges and are painful, unlike the firm, typically painless ulcer of syphilis — with a further distinction made between cases with and without accompanying swollen groin lymph nodes (buboes).