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Comparison of clinical and laboratory findings in GUDs.
| Clinical Diagnosis | Gram smear (HD) |
Giemsa (MNGC) | DFM | HD Culture | VDRL | TPHA + FTA-Abs + ELISA-Tp | ELISA-HSV-2 | Lab. diagnosis |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Syphilis | 6 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| HSV | 71 | 1 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 18 |
| Chancroid | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Chancroid + HSV | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Syphilis + HSV | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
|
| |||||||||
| Total | 90 | 3 | 19 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 8 | 2 | 24 |
Note: HD: Haemophilus ducreyi; MNGC: multinucleated giant cell; DFM: dark field microscopy.
