Screening women for syphilis during pregnancy and providing proper treatment are the cornerstones of congenital syphilis prevention. During 2008-2011, 6,221 pregnant women were screened for syphilis using the Rapid Plasma Reagin (RPR) and Treponema Pallidum Hemagglutination (TPHA) tests at R.L. Jalappa Hospital, Kolar, Karnataka, India. The seroprevalence of syphilis during pregnancy ranged fro...

OBJECTIVES Reported cases of congenital syphilis in the Russian Federation increased 26-fold from 1991-9. Our objectives were to describe the frequency, risk factors, and consequences of delivering an infant with congenital syphilis among pregnant women with active syphilis. METHODS In a retrospective record review using consecutive sampling of logs at maternity hospitals in five geographic a...

Syphilis can be spread during the practice of dentistry by direct contact with mucosal lesions of primary and secondary syphilis or blood and saliva from infected patients. The dentist also can play an important role in the control of syphilis by identification of the signs and symptoms of syphilis, patient education, and referral. The incidence of syphilis and the impact of control measures ar...

The manifestations of late syphilis are rarely seen nowadays. In the Oslo study, benign tertiary syphilis occurred in 15-8 per cent. of 1,147 patients with untreated syphilis. The commonest sites of 'benign' tertiary syphilis were the skin, the mucous membranes, and the bones (70 0, 10-3, and 9-6 per cent. of all cases, respectively) (Gjestland, 1955). Thus, syphilis affecting the bones can be ...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate congenital syphilis surveillance in Minnesota, to assess the evaluation and management of newborns at risk for congenital syphilis, and to assess prenatal syphilis screening. DESIGN Case ascertainment and medical record review. SETTING The 7-county Minneapolis-St Paul metropolitan area. PATIENTS Newborns at risk for congenital syphilis during a 3-year period (1992-1...

OBJECTIVE To determine the diagnostic performance of the SD BIOLINE HIV/syphilis Duo rapid test. DESIGN A hospital-based cross-sectional study. SETTING This evaluation was conducted at one of the largest hospitals in southern Ethiopia. PARTICIPANTS Serum samples obtained from clients attending the antiretroviral therapy and voluntary counselling and testing centres were used. Sera were or...

PURPOSE Between 4-15% of pregnant women are believed to be infected with syphilis in sub-Saharan Africa. Active infection with syphilis in pregnant women results in foetal or infant death or disability for 50-80% of affected pregnancies, and is a major cause of adult morbidity as well. Antenatal syphilis screening is cheap and effective; however, it is often poorly implemented in countries with...

In October 1999, CDC, in collaboration with other federal partners, launched the National Plan to Eliminate Syphilis in the United States. In 1998, Congress initiated funding for the syphilis elimination effort. Syphilis elimination is defined as the absence of sustained transmission (i.e., no transmission after 90 days of the report of an imported index case). The national goal for syphilis el...

Syphilis in pregnancy is a worrisome topic due to its fetal consequences. The diagnosis and management of such case might be intriguing when overlapped with Behçet’s disease, an inflammatory disease involving multiple organ systems. This presents 35-year-old pregnant female, known hypothyroidism, presenting at 33 weeks the emergency department Bahrain Defense Force (BDF) hospital vaginal leakin...

Investigating the predictors for lumbar puncture to diagnose the asymptomatic neurosyphilis among HIV and syphilis co-infected patients in Shanghai, China. Respectively, screening the medical records from August 1, 2009 to June 30, 2015. Those HIV-infected patients with concurrent syphilis who had received lumbar puncture were selected and their clinical and demographic data were recorded. Part...