Photograph of a primary syphilitic penile meatal chancre caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum.
This patient has a primary syphilitic chancre located in the urethral meatus. A chancre is a primary skin lesion of syphilis which begins at the site of infection after an interval of 10-30 days as a papule or red ulcerated skin lesion.
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