Only screening patients for syphilis who came to the ED for gonorrhea and chlamydia testing would have missed 76.4% of ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control, the earliest warning signs of the primary stage of syphilis appear as sores at ...

Early syphilis therapy was a focus of intense research in the early 20th century with many and varied approaches being used. The development of penicillin and its efficacy in the treatment of ...

The number of primary and secondary syphilis cases in young women rose dramatically in the late 1980s and early 1990s, due to illicit drug use and the exchange of drugs for sex. Of infants born to ...

Congenital syphilis is transmitted to fetuses by parents with the infection. In a Feb. 25 letter to Oregon providers, Dr. Pete Singson of the Oregon Health Authority wrote that just two babies were ...

Patients in Washington D.C. and San Francisco had minimal early uptake and adherence to doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis (DoxyPEP) in studies presented at the Conference on Retroviruses and ...

Congenital syphilis represents one of the most devastating yet preventable threats to infant health, with cases climbing at an alarming rate across the United States. This resurgent public health ...

From chlamydia to gonorrhea, Mississippi’s rate of reported STI cases per 100,000 residents was the highest in the US.

In response to a sharp increase over the past several years in cases of syphilis passed down from mother to child, a ...