The infection is curable, especially with early diagnosis and treatment. Untreated syphilis can lead to severe health ...

Syphilis bacteria can stay in the body for years without causing any symptoms. It can cause serious health problem s without treatment, according to the Centers for Disease Control.

Without treatment, which consists primarily of penicillin shots, syphilis can cause serious problems, including damage to the brain, the heart and other organs.

THIS report deals with the therapeutic pitfalls encountered in 125 patients with various types of syphilis who were treated with penicillin at the Massachusetts General Hospital subsequent to Novem ...

Syphilis is a conquered disease in one sense only—that the chemical means to obliterate it are on hand. Its real conquest is a problem of lining up the patients. Standard syphilis-destroyer is ...

For it is the obstetrician who almost universally discovers the presence of syphilis in pregnant women and must decide whether treatment is warranted or not.

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If syphilis is so curable, why are the numbers of cases rising? Although screening and treatment for syphilis is easy, highly accurate and effective, rates of the disease are continuing to rise.

When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released its 2022 STI surveillance report, it was far from a clean ...

Risk factors for syphilis treatment noncompletion include older age, heterosexuality, and being diagnosed in the ED.

BOSTON — Low-risk patients with syphilis and a penicillin allergy label should be delabeled to avoid treatment failure, according to a poster presented at the American College of Allergy ...