Background: Repeat syphilis is playing an increasing role in syphilis transmission in several populations. The assessment of repeat syphilis and response to treatment depends on accurately measuring ...
Syphilis often has few (or no) symptoms — getting screened can help prevent serious, long-term health problems. (Getty Images) After years of alarming increases in rates of syphilis and congenital ...
Dr. Christopher V. Radcliffe (Medicine): A 46-year-old man was evaluated in the rheumatology clinic of this hospital because of arthritis and rash. One week before the current presentation, an episode ...
Controversy persists regarding the appropriate duration of therapy with benzathine penicillin G in persons with early (i.e., primary, secondary, or early latent) syphilis (Treponema pallidum infection ...
During ARS, the viral load is very high—often >100,000 copies/mL. The standard test to detect ARS is the reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). False-positive HIV viral loads do ...
Why do we need these recommendations? Syphilis is a bacterial sexually transmitted infection (STI) that progresses in stages from a painless sore (stage 1) to a severe disease that may attack the ...
Cornelis A. Rietmeijer, More Mungati, Peter H. Kilmarx, Beth Tippett Barr, Elizabeth Gonese, Ranmini S. Kularatne, David A. Lewis, Jeffrey D. Klausner, Luanne Rodgers ...