Abstract This study of multiple cases aimed to analyze the social support network young mothers children diagnosed with congenital syphilis in a municipality Ceará six participants. Information was collected through semi-structured interviews and analyzed using cross-case synthesis analytical technique. The women’s comprised family members, people outside family, facilities. We identified heter...

Background. Oral lesions may constitute the first clinical manifestation in secondary syphilis, but detailed descriptions in HIV-infected individuals are scarce. Objective. To describe the clinical characteristics of oral secondary syphilis in HIV-infected patients and its relevance in the early diagnosis of syphilis. Methods. Twenty HIV/AIDS adult subjects with oral secondary syphilis lesions ...

OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was to characterize syphilis epidemiology and the relationship of HIV status and initial rapid plasma reagin (RPR) titer to syphilis treatment in Lima, Peru. STUDY DESIGN We screened 1,261 individuals at high risk for sexually transmitted diseases for syphilis and HIV infection. Syphilis was treated with penicillin injection or doxycycline; treatment was...

INTRODUCTION Despite advances in treatment and management, syphilis remains a major public health problem in Burkina Faso. Syphilis in pregnancy poses major health risks for the mother and the fetus and also increases the risk for HIV transmission. Despite its potential benefits, antenatal syphilis screening is often poorly implemented in many sub-Saharan African countries. The purpose of the s...

Currently, there are three algorithms for screening of syphilis: traditional algorithm, reverse algorithm and European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) algorithm. To date, there is not a generally recognized diagnostic algorithm. When syphilis meets HIV, the situation is even more complex. To evaluate their screening performance and impact on the seroprevalence of syphilis in HI...

BACKGROUND This study aims to estimate the magnitude and changing trends of HIV, syphilis and HIV-syphilis co-infections among men who have sex with men (MSM) in China during 2003-2008 through a systematic review of published literature. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS Chinese and English literatures were searched for studies reporting HIV and syphilis prevalence among MSM from 2003 to 2008. T...

Background Untreated maternal syphilis caused by infection with the bacterium Treponema pallidum is responsible for an estimated annual 360,000 foetal and perinatal deaths worldwide. A further 270,000 babies suffer serious permanent defects because of congenital syphilis. This annual mortality level is greater than that for HIV/AIDS among children (age <15 years). In addition, syphilis is assoc...

The Boeck-Bruusgaard series of cases of untreated syphilis consists of approximately 2,000 patients with primary and/or secondary syphilis, hospitalized in the Dermatological Department, University Hospital, Oslo, in the 20 years between 1891 and 1910. Prof. Caesar Boeck, who was head of the Dermatological Department in those years, had very little belief in the effect upon early syphilis of th...

Syphilis has existed for millenni, but its epidemiology was only recently linked to men who have sex with men (MSM) after the introduction of penicillin in the 1940s; the syphilis epidemic became concentrated within the MSM community in subsequent decades. The HIV/AIDS epidemic in the 1980s led to a surge of new syphilis cases and revealed the potentiation between HIV and syphilis, as evidenced...