Diagnosing Tabes Dorsalis in HIV-Negative Patients: Clinical Features, Neuroimaging, and Laboratory Insights in the Modern Antibiotic Era [PDF]
Infection and Drug ResistanceZhou Zhu,1– 3,* Huizi Gong,4,* Mingjuan Liu,1– 3 Hanlin Zhang,1,2 Leyan Yang,1,2 Xinyi Zhang,5 Heyi Zheng,1,2 Yanfeng Li,6 Mingli Li,7 Jun Li1,2 1Department of Dermatology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical ...
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The Medical Kipling—Syphilis, Tabes Dorsalis, and Romberg’s Test [PDF]
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2004 Born of expatriate parents in Bombay, India, in 1865, Rudyard Kipling was the first English author to win the Nobel Prize for literature. He received this honor when he was not yet 42 years old.
Setu K. Vora, Robert W. Lyons
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Significance of the combined tests application in serum and liquor of patients with suspected neurosyphilis [PDF]
Vojnosanitetski Pregled, 2007 Background. Tertiary syphilis develops in 8-40% of untreated patients. It is most commonly manifested in the form of neurosyphilis, which can be asymptomatic taking the form of tabes dorsalis or progressive paralyze. Nowadays, in the developed countries,
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Neurosyphilis presenting with Guillain–Barre syndrome: a case report [PDF]
BMC Neurology, 2023 Background Syphilis is associated with a wide variety of systemic presentations, earning it the moniker “The great mimicker”. Neurosyphilis is classically associated with meningovasculitis in the acute-subacute stage and tabes dorsalis and dementia ...
Hoameng Ung, Dominic Ferrey
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Clinical Insights into Neurosyphilis Patients with Leptomeningeal Enhancement of Spinal Cord [PDF]
Neuropsychiatric Disease and TreatmentWenjing Zhang,1,2,* Xiaoyang Ma,1,2,* Kaiyu Qin,1,2 Cheng Kou,1,2 Canglin Song,1,2 Dongmei Xu1,2 1National Center for Infectious Disease, Beijing Ditan Hospital Capital Medical University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of ...
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Acute ischaemic stroke in the context of neurosyphilis: how does antibiotic therapy help, and when should it be given? [PDF]
European Journal of Case Reports in Internal MedicineIntroduction: Neurosyphilis (NS) refers to a central nervous system infection caused by Treponema pallidum. In recent years, there has been an increasing incidence of syphilis; however, NS is uncommon compared to the era before the discovery of ...
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A treatable cause of ataxia: Tabes dorsalis [PDF]
Journal of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, 2014 Syphillis is a spirochetal infectious disease which is transmitted sexually. 1,2Incidence of this disease hasdecreased by penicillin age and gradually increasedsince 2000.
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine, 1928 Because of the rare occurrence of tabes dorsalis in children, it seems worth while to report my observations in three cases. In more than 7,000 consecutive cases of nervous diseases in the Children's Hospital in Boston, not a single case of tabes appeared.1In Abt's "Pediatrics" it is stated that only sixty true instances are recorded in the literature ...
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Venereology at the Polyclinic: postgraduate medical education among General Practitioners in England, 1899–1914 [PDF]
, 2015 In 1899 the British Medical Journal enthusiastically announced that a new postgraduate teaching college was to open in London. The aim of the Medical Graduates’ College and Polyclinic (MGC) was to provide continuing education to general practitioners. It
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