Fact sheets
The Department of Health, Western Australia, does not produce fact sheets on this topic.
Public Health action
Notifiable disease data and reports
Additional sources of information
Case definition
Both probable and confirmed cases should be notified.
Confirmed case
A confirmed case requires laboratory definitive evidence.
Laboratory definitive evidence
Isolation of Haemophilus ducreyi from a clinical specimen.
Probable case
A probable case requires clinical evidence
Clinical evidence
A clinically compatible illness in a patient who is epidemiologically related to a laboratory confirmed case, where syphilis, granuloma inguinale and Herpes simplex have been excluded as the only cause of the ulcers.
