Background: More laboratories are screening for syphilis with automated treponemal immunoassays. We compared direct costs and downstream consequences when a local public health laboratory switches ...
Changes in sexual practice and condom use may also lie behind the spike in syphilis cases (Credit: Getty Images) Syphilis is one of the oldest known sexually transmitted infections. Once thought to be ...
Syphilis is a common sexually transmitted infection caused by Treponema pallidum. As per the data released by the World Health Organisation (WHO), more than 7 million adults had syphilis in 2020.
The number of syphilis cases in the United States is the highest it’s been since the 1950s, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dr. Philip Chan, chief medical officer for Open ...
The Houston Health Department has reported a syphilis outbreak, with an increase of 128% among women in the city, and a ninefold increase in congenital cases in Houston and the surrounding Harris ...
Rates of the most dangerous form of syphilis have tripled since 2016, health officials have warned. New CDC data shows 280.4 pregnant women per 100,000 births tested positive for the sexually ...
Remains of people who lived on the eastern coast of South America nearly 2,000 years ago have yielded the oldest known evidence for the family of microorganisms that cause syphilis 1. The origins of ...
The number of syphilis cases in the U.S. are on the rise. According to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, cases increased by nearly 80% to more than 207,000 between 2018 ...
Syphilis, a sexually transmitted infection that was previously more common in Japan among men, has sharply increased among young pregnant women and newborns, alarming experts. One in about 200 ...
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