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Review
. 1989 Dec;53(4):377-89.
doi: 10.1128/mr.53.4.377-389.1989.

Biology of Haemophilus ducreyi

W L Albritton
Review

Biology of Haemophilus ducreyi

W L Albritton. Microbiol Rev. 1989 Dec.

Abstract

The etiological agent of the sexually transmitted genital ulcer disease chancroid was first described in 1889 by Auguste Ducrey following repeated autoinoculation of purulent ulcer material from a series of patients. The organism was isolated on artificial media a decade later but has remained difficult to isolate consistently, resulting in controversy over its characteristics and role as the causative agent of chancroid. Because of its fastidious growth requirements, including unknown components in blood, the organism was included in the original description of the genus Haemophilus. Requirement for exogenous hemin and limited phenotypic characteristics, including structural and antigenic properties, suggested that Haemophilus ducreyi was a valid member of the genus Haemophilus. Recent studies of respiratory quinones, deoxyribonucleic acid hybridization, and competition for homologous transformation of the type species, H. influenzae, suggest that H. ducreyi is unrelated to any of the present species of the family Pasteurellaceae, which includes members of the genera Haemophilus, Actinobacillus, and Pasteurella. This review summarizes the early studies with H. ducreyi and our current knowledge of the microbiology of this important human pathogen.

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