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Regulatory T cells in peripheral blood and cerebrospinal fluid of syphilis patients with and without neurological involvement. [PDF]
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2013 BACKGROUND: Syphilis, a sexually transmitted disease caused by spirochetal bacterium Treponema pallidum, can progress to affect the central nervous system, causing neurosyphilis.
Kang Li +5 more
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Retrospective review of tertiary and neurosyphilis cases in Alberta, 1973–2017
BMJ Open, 2019 ObjectivesTo review the notification rate and characteristics of tertiary and neurosyphilis cases in Alberta, Canada in the postantibiotic era.MethodsA retrospective review of all neurosyphilis and tertiary syphilis cases reported in Alberta from 1973 to
Jennifer Gratrix +6 more
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Neurosyphilis presenting with papillitis [PDF]
, 2017 Syphilis is one of the oldest described infectious diseases in the world and is caused by the spirochete bacterium Treponema pallidum[1]. Although now a rare disease, incidence is increasing with the number of diagnoses of the disease rising in England ...
Cooper, Sarah +2 more
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GMS Infectious Diseases, 2023 The determination of -specific intrathecal immunoglobulin synthesis with the particle agglutination (TPPA) index is a well-established method recommended in German guidelines for the diagnosis of neurosyphilis.
Wellinghausen, Nele +2 more
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The chemokine CXCL13 in acute neuroborreliosis [PDF]
, 2009 Objective Recent studies have suggested an important role of the B cell chemoattractant CXCL13 in acute neuroborreliosis (NB). Our aim was to confirm the diagnostic role of CXCL13 and to evaluate its relevance as a therapy response and disease activity ...
Brettschneider, Johannes +5 more
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International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2019 Introduction: The confirmation or analysis and exclusion of a diagnosis of neurosyphilis has long presented a challenge for infectious diseases clinicians. The authors reviewed the concordance between cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) analysis and the subsequent
O.C. Smibert +3 more
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Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2019 The mechanism underlying the stealth property of neurosyphilis is still unclear. Global metabolomics analysis can provide substantial information on energy metabolism, physiology and possible diagnostic biomarkers and intervention strategies for ...
Li-Li Liu +14 more
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Neurosyphilis in Africa: A systematic review.
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2017 IntroductionNeurological involvement is one of the most important clinical manifestations of syphilis and neurological disease occurs in both early and late syphilis. The impact of HIV co-infection on clinical neurosyphilis remains unclear.
Michael Marks +3 more
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Status Epilepticus as an Initial Manifestation of Neurosyphilis: A Case Report
Kaohsiung Journal of Medical Sciences, 2006 Seizures and focal neurologic deficits may be the complications of neurosyphilis, but status epilepticus as a presenting picture of neurosyphilis is rare.
Chien-Hsun Li, Ruey-Tay Lin
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Neurosyphilis in Brazilian newborns: a health problem that could be avoided
Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 2020 Syphilis is a public health problem, especially in pregnant women, due to the risk of transmission to the fetus and the involvement of the central nervous system, causing neurosyphilis.
Anny Danyelly da Costa Ribeiro +4 more
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