{"title":"A case report of donovanosis in HIV-positive female.","authors":"Niharika Kumari, Aanchal Agarwal, Atul Mohan, Satyendra Kumar Singh","doi":"10.4103/ijstd.ijstd_62_23","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Donovanosis is a chronic granulomatous ulcerative sexually transmitted infection caused by Klebsiella (Calymmatobacterium) granulomatis. A 39-year-old female patient with underlying HIV infection presented to the department of dermatology outpatient department with a painless ulcer over the left labia majora for 3 months. Histopathological examination revealed histiocyte which contains granular material resembling coccobacilli and Giemsa staining was positive for Donovan bodies. She was treated with doxycycline 100 mg twice daily and azithromycin 1 g once weekly for 3 weeks and further azithromycin 1 g weekly for the next 9 weeks till complete healing of the lesion. Due to the rarity of this condition in our region, we present this case of donovanosis in an HIV-positive female patient.</p>","PeriodicalId":44880,"journal":{"name":"Indian Journal of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and AIDS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6000,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11233046/pdf/","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Indian Journal of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and AIDS","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4103/ijstd.ijstd_62_23","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2024/6/6 0:00:00","PubModel":"Epub","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"INFECTIOUS DISEASES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Donovanosis is a chronic granulomatous ulcerative sexually transmitted infection caused by Klebsiella (Calymmatobacterium) granulomatis. A 39-year-old female patient with underlying HIV infection presented to the department of dermatology outpatient department with a painless ulcer over the left labia majora for 3 months. Histopathological examination revealed histiocyte which contains granular material resembling coccobacilli and Giemsa staining was positive for Donovan bodies. She was treated with doxycycline 100 mg twice daily and azithromycin 1 g once weekly for 3 weeks and further azithromycin 1 g weekly for the next 9 weeks till complete healing of the lesion. Due to the rarity of this condition in our region, we present this case of donovanosis in an HIV-positive female patient.