Secondary Syphilis Without Any History of Primary Infection

Late Manifestations of Syphilis without a History of Primary Sore

Primary and secondary syphilis--United States, 1998.

Rates of primary and secondary (P&S) syphilis have been declining in the United States since the last national epidemic in 1990. Syphilis causes substantial morbidity and mortality in the form of cardiac and neurologic disease, stillbirth and developmental disability from congenital syphilis, and by facilitating transmission of human immunodeficiency virus. Syphilis is both preventable and cura...

Primary and secondary syphilis--United States, 1999.

In October 1999, CDC, in collaboration with other federal partners, launched the National Plan to Eliminate Syphilis in the United States. In 1998, Congress initiated funding for the syphilis elimination effort. Syphilis elimination is defined as the absence of sustained transmission (i.e., no transmission after 90 days of the report of an imported index case). The national goal for syphilis el...

Elimination and reintroduction of primary and secondary syphilis.

OBJECTIVES This study was conducted to define factors associated with the epidemic spread, elimination, and reintroduction of primary and secondary syphilis in King County, Washington, from 1987 through 1998. METHODS Reports of primary and secondary syphilis in King County from 1987 through 1998 were reviewed retrospectively. RESULTS During the epidemic spread of syphilis, only 15.8% of cas...

Secondary Syphilis

A 27-year-old black woman presented with complaints of skin lesions on the vulva, back, nipple and ear. Darkfield examination of the cxudate from the moist vulvar papules (A) revealed motile spirochetes. A VDRL was reactive at a titer of 1:1,024. A papular lesion with raised borders (annular syphilid) (B) was discovered during examination of the back. Split papules were also discovered on the n...