1. Donovanosis in a child victim of sexual abuse: response to doxycycline treatment
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Bárbara Machado Magalhães, John Verrinder Veasey, Silvia Assumpção Soutto Mayor, and Rute Facchini Lellis
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0301 basic medicine ,Klebsiella granulomatis ,Child abuse ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Sexual transmission ,030106 microbiology ,Dermatology ,030207 dermatology & venereal diseases ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,medicine ,Sex organ ,Child ,Sexually transmitted diseases ,Vulvar diseases ,Doxycycline ,Sex offenses ,business.industry ,General Medicine ,medicine.disease ,Child abuse, sexual ,Granuloma inguinale ,Sexual abuse ,Imaging in Tropical Dermatology/Parasitic Disease ,RL1-803 ,Sex offense ,business ,medicine.drug - Abstract
Donovanosis is a chronic infectious disease caused by the Gram-negative bacteria Klebsiella granulomatis, which mainly affects the skin and mucous membranes of the genital, perigenital, and inguinal regions. Also known as venereal granuloma or granuloma inguinale, it is endemic in tropical and subtropical regions of the globe and often associated with sexual transmission. We report the case of an 11-year-old female victim of chronic sexual abuse, who was diagnosed with donovanosis and presented a good therapeutic response to doxycycline.
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- 2018
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