TO THE EDITOR: In their article on the decline of infectious syphilis in the Australian Indigenous population from 2005 to 2009, Ward and colleagues conclude that it “might be the right time to move toward the elimination of infectious syphilis from remote Indigenous communities”. They note that another previously endemic sexually transmitted infection, donovanosis, has almost completely disapp...

IgM-FTA tests have been carried out on 209 sera from 169 patients with treated or untreated syphilis at various stages and on 128 sera from 109 patients, born in areas where yaws is or was prevalent, with treated or untreated latent treponemal disease. IgM anti-treponemal antibody was found in virtually all cases of untreated early or early latent syphilis but in only 23 per cent. of sera from ...

Aim: In this study, it was aimed to determine the frequency of asymptomatic Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), Hepatitis B, C, and syphilis in circumcised patients diagnosed with urethritis transmitted by sexual intercourse because unprotected contact. Material Methods: We retrospectively investigated serological results HIV, Syphilis diseases 364 male urethritis, all them were during childhoo...

INTRODUCTION ​This study aimed to describe the epidemiology of congenital and maternal syphilis in the Brazilian Federal District in 2010. ​ METHODS ​A retrospective descriptive study was conducted on the basis of the cases recorded in the System of Notifiable Disease Information. RESULTS ​The study population comprised 133 cases of congenital syphilis; of these, 116 (52.6%) mothers receive...

The recombinant protein technology considerably promoted the development of rapid and accurate treponema-specific laboratory diagnostics of syphilis infection. For the last ten years, the immunodominant recombinant inner membrane lipoproteins are proved to be sensitive and specific antigens for syphilis screening. However, the development of an enlarged T. pallidum antigen panel for diagnostics...

A cross-sectional anonymous study of 261 STD (sexually transmitted diseases) outpatients and 288 outpatients from other hospital departments was conducted at four major city hospitals in Buenos Aires. High prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) (14.5%) and syphilis (30.2%) was noted. Fifty-two persons were diagnosed with both HIV and syphilis. Of the 87 HIV cases observed, 52 (59.7%) ...

In the early 1990s a reduction in the rate of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) occurred, although recent years have seen an increase. The aim of this study was to examine epidemiological and clinical features of syphilis cases in patients with HIV infection. We reviewed the charts of HIV-infected patients referring to our centre in the period 2002-2011. Fifty of the 402 consecutive HIV-po...

The incidence of syphilis in the UK is rapidly rising. Uveitis (intraocular inflammation) usually occurs in the secondary or later stages of syphilis infection and is sight-threatening. Methods A retrospective analysis of the demographics, presentation, diagnosis, treatment and outcomes of patients with syphilitic uveitis managed in Newcastle from 2005-2016 was carried out. Results Ten males (1...

Evidence-based research now allows clear separation of syphilis from other diseases in its class of treponematoses. Examination of skeletons from populations with clinically diagnosed bejel and yaws revealed bone alterations distinctive to those diseases, clearly separating them from alterations due to syphilis, transcending the limitations of current DNA and immunologic technologies. These ins...

Syphilis is a notifiable and preventable disease, congenital syphilis more so. Consequently, attention has been recently focused on prenatal diagnosis of foetal syphilis by the use of ultrasonography apart from the conventional serologic screening. Congenital syphilis has not been reported from the Kingdom of Lesotho. We report the case of a 3.0 kg male neonate with florid joint and bone lesion...