24 year old comes to ED due to ulcerative genital lesions. Describes lesions as first appearing 1 week earlier as tiny blisterse filled with clear fluid and having red bases. After they ruptured they became ulcerated and painful. Temp is 100.9. Physical exam shows only a few ulcerative lesiosn on prepuce with unilateral inguinal adenopathy. Attemps to culture grow nothing. 1. What is likely pathology occuring? 2. Scrapings from lesion will likely show what?

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1. 24 year old comes to ED due to ulcerative genital lesions. Describes lesions as first appearing 1 week earlier as tiny blisterse filled with clear fluid and having red bases. After they ruptured they became ulcerated and painful. Temp is 100.9. Physical exam shows only a few ulcerative lesiosn on prepuce with unilateral inguinal adenopathy. Attemps to culture grow nothing. 1. What is likely pathology occuring? 2. Scrapings from lesion will likely show what?