BACKGROUND Untreated syphilis in pregnancy is associated with adverse clinical outcomes to the infant. In low- and middle-income countries in Asia and Latin America, 20%-30% of women are not tested for syphilis during pregnancy. We evaluated the cost-effectiveness of increasing the coverage for antenatal syphilis screening in 11 Asian and 20 Latin American countries, using a point-of-care immun...

INTRODUCTION: The implementation of the rapid test (RT) for syphilis increases access of vulnerable populations to early diagnosis and treatment, impacting the outcomes of infection. We aimed to assess the prevalence of and factors associated with syphilis in a Center for Testing and Counseling (CTC). METHODS: We conducted a cross-sectional study at a Reference Center for sexually transmitt...

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I n recent decades, cases of newly diagnosed syphilis were rare in the United Kingdom. Since 1996, however, the number of cases of primary and secondary syphilis in women has increased threefold. 2 This resurgence has been associated with a number of localised outbreaks, which have affected women of childbearing age and has been linked to the birth of at least one infant with documented congeni...

Reverse sequence screening for syphilis (RSSS) (screening with treponemal tests, followed by confirmation with nontreponemal tests) has been increasingly adopted. CDC recommends confirmation of discordant results (reactive EIA/CIA and nonreactive nontreponemal test) with Treponema pallidum particle agglutination assay (TP-PA). We characterized sera with discordant results from RSSS with Archite...

Background: Syphilis is a chronic infectious disease, and its prevalence has been described since the 15th century. Because of high this infection in Brazil, study aimed to evaluate syphilis associated factors among adolescent young women living city Boa Vista, Roraima, Brazil. Methods: The present was cross-sectional, descriptive, analytical quantitative. It involved 200 women. Laboratory test...

We present a case of lichenoid secondary syphilis in the genital area in the absence of other cutaneous or systemic manifestations. The patient did not experience an eruption on the palmar or plantar surfaces, which is rare. This case also is unique because of the intense pruritus associated with the genital lesions, a remarkable dissimilarity from typical secondary syphilitic eruptions that te...

Papulo- and vesiculo-necrotic lesions are rare manifestations of secondary syphilis. Until now it has been described only in HIV-infected patients with advanced stages of immunosuppression. This case report describes an unusual case of PLEVA-like syphilis in a 33-year-old man with newly diagnosed HIV infection. Despite that the CD4 cells level and viral load did not indicate the advance stage o...