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Bacterial agents of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) constitute a major public health burden in both industrialized and developing countries. They include Neisseria gonorrheae, the causative agent of gonorrhea, Chlamydia trachomatis, which causes chlamydial infections, Treponema pallidum, the aetiologic agent of syphilis, Klebsiella granulomatis (formerly called Calymmatobacterium granulomatis), which causes granuloma inguinale (donovanosis), Haemophilus ducreyi, the etiologic agent of chancroid, and some species of Mycoplasma and Ureaplasma that are occasional causes of consequential STIs.
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Ljubojević Hadžavdić, S., Krtanjek, J., Marinović, B., Skerlev, M. (2021). Syphilis and Bacterial Sexually Transmitted Infections. In: Smoller, B., Bagherani, N. (eds) Atlas of Dermatology, Dermatopathology and Venereology . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45134-3_69-1
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