Prevalence Estimates of Complicated Syphilis

Sex Transm Dis. 2015 Dec;42(12):702-4. doi: 10.1097/OLQ.0000000000000368.

Abstract

We reviewed 68 cases of possible neurosyphilis among 573 syphilis cases in King County, WA, from 3rd January 2012 to 30th September 2013; 7.9% (95% confidence interval, 5.8%-10.5%) had vision or hearing changes, and 3.5% (95% confidence interval, 2.2%-5.4%) had both symptoms and objective confirmation of complicated syphilis with either abnormal cerebrospinal fluid or an abnormal ophthalmologic examination.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Antibodies, Bacterial / cerebrospinal fluid
  • Cerebrospinal Fluid / microbiology*
  • Contact Tracing
  • Diagnostic Techniques, Ophthalmological
  • Eye / microbiology*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Neurosyphilis / cerebrospinal fluid
  • Neurosyphilis / epidemiology*
  • Neurosyphilis / immunology
  • Prevalence
  • Retrospective Studies
  • Sentinel Surveillance
  • Syphilis Serodiagnosis / statistics & numerical data*
  • Syphilis, Latent / cerebrospinal fluid
  • Syphilis, Latent / epidemiology*
  • Syphilis, Latent / immunology
  • Treponema pallidum / immunology
  • Treponema pallidum / isolation & purification*
  • Washington / epidemiology

Substances

  • Antibodies, Bacterial