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Secondary syphilis with chickenpox in an adult.
When syphilis coexists with other infections, these are usually other venereal diseases, or at least sexuallytransmissible diseases. Of 2,610 patients treated for gonorrhoea at the Boston City Hospital from January, 1965, to December, 1967, 3 per cent. were found to be infected with syphilis (Fiumara and Austen, 1969). Some patients presenting with herpes progenitalis (Fiumara, 1970) later exhi...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of General Internal Medicine
سال: 2019
ISSN: 0884-8734,1525-1497
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-018-4816-9