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Agosto Ducrey
Italian dermatologist, born December 22, 1860; died 1940.
Associated eponyms:
Ducrey's disease
Infection of the genitalia with Haemophilus ducreyi.
Ducrey-Krefting bacillus
The cause of the chancroid or soft chancre
Ito-Reenstierna test
Intracutaneous injection of a killed culture of Ducrey-Krefting bacillus for diagnosis of chancroid.
Biography:
Agosto Ducrey was professor of dermatology in Pisa and Rome. He is remembered for isolating the bacillus causing chancroid lesions of soft chancre in 1888.
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