Aetiology of genital ulcers and treatment outcome
| Total (%) | HIV status† | Treatment outcome (first line) | Non-returner | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Negative | p Value‡ | Cured | Improving | Treatment failure | Other | |||
| TP, Treponema pallidum; HD, Haemophilus ducreyi; HSV, herpes simplex virus. | |||||||||
| *One was diagnosed with a re-infection and the other with bacterial eczema. | |||||||||
| †Only 144 individuals had a definite serostatus. | |||||||||
| ‡χ2 test comparing the proportion of infections diagnosed in HIV positive and negative individuals. | |||||||||
| TP alone | 7 (3.5) | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | |
| HD alone | 5 (2.5) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
| HSV alone | 80 (39.6) | 41 | 17 | 29 | 15 | 12 | 1 | 23 | |
| HSV and S aureus | 12 (5.9) | 6 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
| S aureus alone | 21 (10.4) | 6 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 7 | |
| Strep pyogenes alone | 2 (1.0) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| HSV and HD | 1 (0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| HSV and Strep pyogenes | 2 (1.0) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| No organism identified | 72 (35.6) | 30 | 21 | 40 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 24 | |
| Total | 202 | 87 | 49 | 0.309 | 84 | 38 | 14 | 2 | 64 |