Tropical Medicine and Health 2015-Mar
Acute scrotal ulcers in typhoid Fever: case report and literature review.
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Abstract
BACKGROUND
In developed countries, typhoid fever is a travel-associated disease that is often overlooked. However, as standard blood and stool culture methods have relatively low sensitivity, diagnosis depends heavily on clinical signs and symptoms and on a high level of suspicion.
METHODS
Reported here is the case of an 18-year-old male who presented with fever and acute scrotal ulcers and whose blood cultures were positive for Salmonella enterica serotype Typhi. A review of genital ulcers associated with typhoid fever in the literature is discussed.
CONCLUSIONS
This report suggests that typhoid fever is a differential diagnosis of acute genital ulcers.
