Syphilis: An Old Disease With Present-Day Implications

Candice J McNeil; Laura H Bachmann

doi:10.18043/ncm.77.5.365

Syphilis: An Old Disease With Present-Day Implications

N C Med J. 2016 Sep-Oct;77(5):365-8. doi: 10.18043/ncm.77.5.365.

Authors

Candice J McNeil¹, Laura H Bachmann²

Affiliations

¹ assistant professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Section on Infectious Diseases, Wake Forest School of Medicine; STD medical director, Forsyth County Department of Public Health, Winston-Salem, North Carolina cmcneil@wakehealth.edu.
² professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Section on Infectious Diseases, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina; medical director, North Carolina Guilford County Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Division, Greensboro, North Carolina.

PMID: 27621352
DOI: 10.18043/ncm.77.5.365

Abstract

Syphilis continues to be a burden on the public health system. While men who have sex with men and HIV-infected individuals are the most affected populations, syphilis rates have also increased in reproductive-aged women, resulting in concurrent increases in congenital syphilis. Prompt diagnosis and treatment are requisite components of syphilis control.

MeSH terms

Adult
Anti-Bacterial Agents / therapeutic use
Communicable Disease Control / methods
Female
Humans
Male
Penicillins / therapeutic use*
Syphilis Serodiagnosis / methods
Syphilis* / diagnosis
Syphilis* / epidemiology
Syphilis* / physiopathology
Syphilis* / transmission
Syphilis, Congenital / epidemiology*
Time-to-Treatment
Treponema pallidum* / drug effects
Treponema pallidum* / isolation & purification

Substances

Anti-Bacterial Agents
Penicillins