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The 'other' STDs As dangerous as ever AIDS is not the only sexually transmitted disease to have burgeon in the 1980s. Can you spot the symptoms of the five other [...]

New and traditional treating techniques are proving useful in dealing with what is now called sexually transmitted diseases. The old term for these diseases was venereal diseases.

In the early part of this century, 10% of the population of the United States and Europe was infected with syphilis. It touched all social strata and ages, from neonates [...]

World Health Organization, 2007 Rapid tests for syphilis are now commercially available. These are simple point of care tests and can be performed outside a laboratory setting with minimal training [...]

The incidence of syphilis has risen dramatically in the past few years, and the genital ulcers associated with syphilis seem to make it easier for an individual to transmit the virus that causes AIDS. Standard treatment of syphilis has been benzathine penicillin, and assessment of the effectiveness of therapy has generally been based on following the results of blood tests (serologies). As the organism that causes syphilis is difficult to culture or identify under a microscope, measurement of antibodies to the organism in the blood of the infected person can help determine infection; the decrease and ultimate loss of these antibodies has generally been assumed to mean cure. Recent studies have shown that the decline in these antibodies against syphilis can take months longer than earlier assumed, and declining levels of antibodies does not necessarily reflect a decline in the level of infection. Some people who have been treated with penicillin have still had the syphilis bacterium present in their spinal fluid after therapy has been completed. A brief discussion is presented of the different kinds of tests that are commonly carried out for syphilis. Patients who have been treated with the recommended course of penicillin must still be monitored carefully and for an extended period of time to ensure that they have, indeed, been cured of their disease. (Consumer Summary produced by Reliance Medical Information, Inc.)

BOSTON -- The diagnosis of syphilis is often delayed in HIV-positive patients, as it is characterized by a wide range of symptoms that may not be recognized as infection with [...]

JACKSONVILLE, FLA. -- Tailored and targeted interventions to educate men who have sex with men and to reduce ethnic disparities are key components of a revised Syphilis Elimination Effort recently [...]

JACKSONVILLE, FLA. -- Positive test results for rectal gonorrhea and syphilis were common in asymptomatic men who have sex with men among patients seeking care at a large primary care [...]

WASHINGTON -- The overall incidence of syphilis has been dropping in the United States since the mid 1990s, but a syphilis epidemic is raging among men who have sex with [...]

The-Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging clinicians to use caution when prescribing azithromycin for incubating syphilis or syphilis infection because several treatment failures have been reported. At least [...]

A recently updated guideline on syphilis screening includes a new recommendation against routine screening of low-risk asymptomatic individuals, according to the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. "Given the low incidence [...]

LAS VEGAS -- If a newborn presents with desquamation, vesicobullous lesions, and / or condylomata lata, think congenital syphilis until proved otherwise, Dr. Patricia Treadwell said at a meeting sponsored [...]

LAS VEGAS -- If a newborn presents with desquamation, vesicobullous lesions, and/or condylomata lata, think congenital syphilis until proved otherwise, Dr. Patricia Treadwell said at a meeting sponsored by the [...]

COLUMBUS, OHIO -- Examinations and discussions of sexually transmitted diseases too often fall by the wayside in the doctor's office, even though STDs continue to be a major health problem [...]

COLUMBUS, OHIO -- Examinations and discussions of sexually transmitted diseases too often fall by the wayside in the doctor's office, even though STDs continue to be a major health problem [...]

COLUMBUS, OHIO -- Examinations and discussions of sexually transmitted diseases too often fall by the wayside in the doctor's office, even though STDs continue to be a major health problem [...]

This article discusses the history of syphilis treatment research. Topics include sexual hygiene, research ethics, and disease transmission.