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Often a prodrome of itching, dysuria, painful legs and groin prior to ulceration is suggestive of HSV. Painful genital ulceration in the UK is usually herpetic in origin; painless ulceration may be syphilitic - a solitary lesion being suggestive of a chancre and multiple ulcers occurring in secondary syphilis.

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