Two cases of congenital syphilis was presented and few aspect of the disease and its treatment was discussed.

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...

Malignant syphilis is now considered a rare disease, more commonly affecting individuals with poor health, malnutrition or HIV infection. We present a 34-year-old man with HIV infection who developed multiple atypical cutaneous ulcerations, leonine facies, a scleral nodule and keratitis with visual loss. The diagnosis of malignant syphilis was delayed due to the insidious presentation, but was ...

PURPOSE To report some cases of ocular histoplasmosis-like syndrome from a nonendemic area. DESIGN Observational case series. METHODS This is a prospective study of 16 eyes from 8 immunocompetent patients evaluated between January 2001 to September 2005. Six patients were female and 2 male aged between 20 to 44 years, average 28 years. All patients presented clinical features that resembled...

conclusions the serological characteristics of syphilis varied with gender and age. syphilis screening and control should be conducted for young patients and pregnant women, but special attention should also be paid to elderly inpatients. the trust assay is better used in syphilis screening and for judgment of curative effects, but the diagnosis needs specific methods, such as the tp-elisa and ...

Nearly 34 million people are currently living with HIV/AIDS: ocular complications are common, affecting 50% to 75% of all such patients at some point during the course of their illness. Cytomegalovirus retinitis is by far the most frequent cause of vision loss in patients with AIDS. Although the prevalence of cytomegalovirus retinitis is decreasing in industrialized countries because of the wid...

Ocular syphilis has varied manifestations in the eye. Peripheral ulcerative keratitis (PUK) is a crescent-shaped ulcer involving the peripheral cornea and associated with thinning. PUK is caused by both autoimmune and infectious diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis, tuberculosis, and herpes. Here, we report a rare case of bilateral PUK caused by syphilis. A 55-year-old man presented with recu...

The diagnosis and treatment of ocular inflammatory disease began as a scientific discipline in the 17th century, with the recognition of infectious diseases, such as gonorrhea, that can affect the eye. Thereafter, for the better part of the next 2 centuries, most all ocular inflammatory diseases were considered infectious in nature, with syphilis and tuberculosis believed to be the primary culp...