An outbreak of early syphilis: cases from North Manchester General Hospital.

An outbreak no longer: factors contributing to the return of syphilis in Greater Manchester.

BACKGROUND In the past few years, increased diagnoses of syphilis have been reported in cities around Britain and Europe. Enhanced surveillance of cases began in 1999 to identify the epidemiology of this increase in Greater Manchester. METHODS Information was collected on all cases of syphilis newly diagnosed in genitourinary medicine (GUM) clinics in Greater Manchester between January 1999 a...

Re-organising Junior Doctors During the COVID-19 Outbreak: A Single Centre Experience in the United Kingdom

Evaluation of the Seroprevalence of Transfusion Transmissible Infections among Blood Donors in a Tertiary Care Hospital of North India

Background: Unsafe transfusion practices put patients at high risk of transfusion transmissible infections. We aimed to evaluate the prevalence of transfusion transmissible infections (including Human Immunodeficiency Virus [HIV] 1 and 2, Hepatitis B Virus [HBV], Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) and syphilis) during a period of 18 months among blood donors in the Blood Bank of Lady Hardinge Medical Coll...

Providing Safe and Effective Surgical Care During the COVID-19 Outbreak in the UK – Changing Strategies

Surfing with spirochaetes: an ongoing syphilis outbreak in Brighton.

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES There has been a recent shift in the epidemiology of early syphilis in the developed world with sporadic outbreaks on a historic low level of background disease. Here we describe an ongoing outbreak of syphilis in Brighton. METHODS Data collected on all patients with a diagnosis of early infectious syphilis at Brighton GUM clinic. RESULTS 30 cases of early syphilis wer...