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Laboratory evaluation of two point-of-care test kits for the identification of infectious syphilis

Canada Communicable Disease Report, 2022
Background: Syphilis is a sexually transmitted disease that can have atypical clinical presentations. Conventional laboratory tests to confirm the diagnosis are not rapid enough to affect clinical decision on treatment and contact tracing. Rapid point-of-
Raymond SW Tsang, Michelle Shuel, Kristy Hayden, Paul Van Caeseele, Derek Stein   +4 more
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Évaluation en laboratoire de deux trousses de test au point de service pour le dépistage de la syphilis infectieuse

Canada Communicable Disease Report, 2022
Contexte : La syphilis est une maladie sexuellement transmissible dont le tableau clinique peut être atypique. Les tests de laboratoire classiques pour confirmer le diagnostic ne sont pas assez rapides pour influencer la décision clinique sur le ...
Raymond SW Tsang, Michelle Shuel, Kristy Hayden, Paul Van Caeseele, Derek Stein   +4 more
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Associations of toluidine red unheated serum test response to the treatment of syphilis in pregnancy and congenital syphilis: a 10-year real-world study

Chinese Medical Journal, 2022
. Background:. So far, there is a paucity of real-world data on the syphilis serological responses to the first-line treatment during pregnancy, and there is no relevant study on the necessity of anti-syphilis treatment during pregnancy for those ...
Jin Wei, Mengyao Pang, Wenhui Lun, Lishao Guo   +3 more
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Re-emergence of syphilis in women of reproductive age and its association with the increase in congenital syphilis in Mexico during 2010–2019: an ecological study

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2021
Background Syphilis is a sexually transmitted infection that is re-emerging in different parts of the world. This infection can be transmitted during pregnancy, causing neonatal syphilis.
Santa García-Cisneros, Antonia Herrera-Ortiz, Maria Olamendi-Portugal, Miguel Angel Sánchez-Alemán   +3 more
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Syphilis - a disease that still occurs

Journal of Education, Health and Sport, 2023
Introduction: Syphilis is a systemic disease caused by Treponema pallidum. Humans are the only hosts, and the incubation period lasts from 9-90 days. Currently it can be divided into congenital or acquired.
Rami Ben Rhaiem, Przemysław Kępka, Daria Kuziemkowska, Jan Kuźma, Anna Łącka-Majcher, Aleksandra Łokczewska-Bojar, Grzegorz Tarsa, Magdalena Skotalczyk, Zuzanna Sawińska, Katarzyna Sudelska   +9 more
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Congenital syphilis in Switzerland: a retrospective cohort study, 2010 to 2019

Swiss Medical Weekly, 2023
AIMS OF THE STUDY: We previously reported a re-emergence of syphilis from 2006 to 2009 with detection of congenital syphilis in Switzerland. This study aimed to reassess the incidence of children exposed to maternal syphilis during pregnancy and ...
Gioia Scherler, Maren Tomaske, Vincenzo Cannizzaro, Anna Steppacher, Franziska Zucol, Martin Theiler, Laurence Toutous Trellu, Anton Labutin, Philipp P. Bosshard, Christoph Berger, Patrick M. Meyer Sauteur   +10 more
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COVID-19 and syphilis co-dynamic analysis using mathematical modeling approach

Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics, 2023
In this study, we have proposed and analyzed a new COVID-19 and syphilis co-infection mathematical model with 10 distinct classes of the human population (COVID-19 protected, syphilis protected, susceptible, COVID-19 infected, COVID-19 isolated with ...
Shewafera Wondimagegnhu Teklu, Birhanu Baye Terefe   +1 more
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Knowledge and attitudes of syphilis and syphilis pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) among men who have sex with men in Vancouver, Canada: a qualitative study

BMJ Open, 2019
Objectives In British Columbia, Canada, syphilis is at record-high rates, with over 80% of cases in 2017 seen in gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (GBM).
Troy Grennan, Jason Wong, Daniel Grace, Ronita Nath, Robin Parry, Fahmy Baharuddin, James P Connell   +6 more
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Effects of syphilis infection among HIV-1-positive individuals on suppressive antiretroviral therapy

AIDS Research and Therapy, 2022
Introduction Incident syphilis leads to changes in plasma HIV-1 RNA and CD4 + T-cell level in people with HIV (PWH) with viraemia. Its effect in PWH on suppressive antiretroviral therapy (ART) is less clear.
Phillip Chan, Tommy H. C. Tang, Ruby T. S. Kwong, Lawrence Chan, Helen S. Y. Chan, K. W. Lam, W. M. Ting, S. K. Yung, Emily C. T. Lam, M. Y. Chu, Wilson Lam, T. C. Wu, Patrick Li, M. P. Lee   +13 more
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Evaluating the effect of the plan of national syphilis control in controlling the syphilis epidemic in Jiangsu, China 2010–2020

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
BackgroundStarting in 2010, the Chinese government initiated a 10-year syphilis control plan, called the national syphilis control plan (NSCP), to address the emerging threat of syphilis.
Lingen Shi, Lingen Shi, Liping Chen, Xiaoyan Liu, Haiyang Hu, Yuheng Chen, Yunting Chen, Zhi Zhang, Ying Zhou, Jing Lu, Dandan Yang, Wenhui Guan   +11 more
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