Duration of syphilis infection is critical in determining the appropriate treatment strategy during the latent phase. Early latent infection is defined as newly acquired syphilis with a negative ...

Following a low incidence of syphilis in the US for the last 2 decades, rates are now increasing both in the US and other parts of the world. Once acquired, syphilis can pass through 4 distinct ...

U.S. doctors have been seeing more patients with more severe symptoms caused by the sexually transmitted infection (STI) syphilis ... not recently acquired infections. The trend is evidence ...