Clinical management of patients with early syphilis has been, and remains a clinical challenge. Difficulties with understanding of serologic tests, treatment options and durations and follow-up ...

Serology testing continues to be an indispensable tool for the management of several disease states, especially treponemal screening to monitor syphilis infection in the US. Come to this educational ...

Early syphilis therapy was a focus of intense research ... Follow-up relies on serological testing, leading to concerns when these tests do not decline appropriately. Given concerns about the ...

Serology testing continues to be an indispensable tool for the management of several disease states, especially treponemal screening to monitor syphilis infection in the US. Come to this educational ...

Researchers found evidence that early versions of syphilis-causing bacteria existed in the Americas long before the arrival of Columbus Margherita Bassi Daily Correspondent The first historical ...

Accusatory finger-pointing about the scourge, syphilis, began almost immediately. The Italians called it “the French disease”; the French called it “the Neapolitan disease”; the Russians ...

Penicillin therapy for secondary syphilis did not prevent the development of asymptomatic neurosyphilis with a Group III spinal fluid. The persistence of positive serologic tests should cause one ...

There was no haematuria or rectal bleeding. The salient findings were: The lab rang that day with a positive syphilis serology from the first consultation. Treponema pallidum screening antibody was ...

But there's evidence that 15th-century colonialists spread Syphilis worldwide. Syphilis and Christopher Columbus have more in common than you might think. Both touched down on new continents and ...

Treponema pallidum, responsible for syphilis. Credit: NIAID / CC BY 2.0 In the spring of 1495, a deadly disease swept through Europe, leaving victims with severe physical and mental damage. The ...