More remarkable, as Dr. William J. Brown of the U.S. Government’s Communicable Disease Center pointed out, the spirochete of syphilis is “about as frail as a germ can be and still survive.” ...

Figure 2. Primary lesion of syphilis. Figure courtesy of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Figure 3. Treponema pallidum, spirochete that causes syphilis. Untreated or inadequately ...

A 32-year-old man with well-controlled human immunodeficiency virus infection presented with painful nodules on his forehead and a rash on his trunk. A bone scan showed uptake in the nodules.

It didn't do much for the sleeping sickness microbe, but it seemed to kill another (recently discovered) microbe, the one which causes syphilis. At that time, syphilis was a disabling and ...

The NICD said that when a pregnant mother carries syphilis, the spirochete Treponema pallidum can be transmitted to the unborn infant through the placenta, a process known as vertical transmission.

But recently, syphilis has made an unwelcome comeback. There were 207,255 cases in the U.S. in 2022, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), more than any time since the 1950s.

The Food and Drug Administration on Friday authorized the first at-home syphilis test amid surging cases of the bacterial ...

Are you searching for medications to treat 'Syphilis'? Welcome to this page which serves as an archive for medications that are relevant to the treatment of Syphilis. The page includes both the ...

A sudden increase in syphilis infections in Japan has prompted experts to call for better sex education and more testing. Around 13,000 cases of the sexually transmitted disease (STD) have been ...

It is also a reminder that after 40 years, the Gamm Theatre in Warwick, R.I., is still one of the most dynamic theater ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Congenital syphilis testing has been recommended by medical professionals in the first and third trimester since 2014, but a new pilot program by the Louisiana Department ...

Tang SA, Fults A, Boyd SR, Gattu N, Tran KA, Fan J, MacKenzie KR, Palzkill T, Young DW, Chamakuri S. Expanding Complex Morpholines Using Systematic Chemical Diversity ...