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A 38yr old man with STD is having genital ulceration with soft tissue and bone destruction after having unprotected sex ....lab diagnosis revealed gr- ve bacteria with stained donovan bodies within large macrophages from the lesion....what is the causative organism,what's the disease and treatment of choice?????
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Granuloma inguinale
(genital ulcer)
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ya causative organism Calymacobacterium Granulomatus.
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Leishmania-Donovan bodies..
not sure about treatment but just looked up online and said tetracycline or TMP-SMX...and erythromycin for pregnancy...