Syphilitic immunofluorescence in experimental relapsing fever.

Syphilitic immunofluorescence in experimental relapsing fever.

Immunological cross-reactivity has been shown between related genera of the family Treponemataceae. Extracts of Borrelia cross-react with antibodies in syphilitic serum (Saurino and De Lamater, 1952) and produce positive skin tests in the later stages of syphilis (Ranque, Quilici, and Assadourian, 1967). The fluorescent treponemal antibody absorption test (FTA-ABS) is at present considered to b...

Case of Syphilitic Fever

treated by a few practitioners for malaria, etc., but without success. I knew he had suffered from syphilis a few years a<*o The symptoms and type of fever suggested malaria or tuberculosis, but the diagnostic tests usually employed gave negative results for both the diseases. From his history of syphilis, and enlargement of supratrochlear glands, I naturally surmised spirochetal toxins to be t...

Specific Fever or Syphilitic Septicæmia

I WISH in the following note to draw attention to a somewhat neglected aspect of syphilis. It is, of course, well known that syphilis is often accompanied or complicated by a rise of temperature : the early periods of the disease?that of sore throat, glandular swellings, eruptions, etc., not uncommonly so. In cases of this type one has usually something definite to base the diagnosis on and the...

Relapsing Fever in Seistan

To the Editor of "The Indian Medical Gazette." Sir,?During the period February to May of this j'ear 4cases of relapsing fever were admitted to the Seistan Consulate Hospital. Diagnosis was confirmed by microscopic examination of the blood. The clinical description conformed closely to that of the Indian variety of the disease. One patient, however, a strong healthy man 28 years of age, develope...

Relapsing fever in Africa.