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Syphilis
… scarcely possible to find a disease which equals syphilis in the number and variety of its SYNONYMS. It was quite an unknown affection when it first made its appearance in Europe, and a satisfactory designation had to be found for it. For long it was known udder the somewhat vague designation of …
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Treatment of syphilis with Salvarsan
… fever but they were extended later on to syphilis as well. The starting point in the discovery of salvarsan was the finding of the correct constitution of atoxyl. This drug was discovered in 1865 by a French Chemist named Be/champ, who considered the substance to be a very loose …
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A study of endemic syphilis in Palestine
PART I. A brief account of the history of syphilis is given. Classical endemics in Scotland, Norway and Sweden, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Russia and other countries are described. The scarcity of primary manifestations and apparent rarity of sequelae on the one hand and the preponderance of mucous …
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Congenital syphilis : a study at Provincial Hospital Uitenhage
Aims: 1. To establish the extent of Syphilis in Pregnancy and the association of syphilis with unbooked status and perinatal deaths. 2. To determine why the diagnosis was not made in forty cases of Early Congenital Syphilis. Objectives: 1. To establish the percentage of patients with syphilis at …
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Syphilis in Pregnancy: Exploring the prevalence and vertical transmission prevention cascade of syphilis using routinely collected electronic health data, Cape Town Metropolitan District, 2017–2022
Introduction: Congenital Syphilis (CS), an important cause of perinatal morbidity and mortality, is notifiable in South Africa. CS results from vertical transmission of inadequately treated syphilis in pregnancy, a treatable sexually transmitted infection caused by Treponema pallidum. Gaps in our …
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Symptomatic congenital syphilis in a tertiary neonatal unit: a retrospective descriptive study
Background: Syphilis is a disease that was first described in the 1300s and now 700 years later, despite preventive measures and effective treatment, continues to impact on a global scale, with the burden falling largely on the developing world. We could find no recent published literature looking …
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Curbing the Epidemic: Evolving Public Health Practices and Implications of Prenatal Syphilis Screening Patterns in Ontario, Canada
Background: Congenital syphilis rates increased significantly between 2018 and 2023 in Ontario, Canada. Timely prenatal syphilis screening is essential for preventing congenital syphilis. We examined the adoption and impact of universal rescreening recommendations on prenatal screening rates and …
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An investigation of antenatal screening and management of syphilis in two districts in the North West Province
Syphilis is a common sexually transmitted disease in South Africa and infection acquired during pregnancy is associated with an increased rate of miscarriage, stillbirth, preterm labour, intra uterine growth restriction (IUGR), neonatal death and congenital syphilis in the newborn. This study was …
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Maternal syphilis in a rural and urban community in Western Cape, South Africa: a cross-sectional analysis
Background: Syphilis affects 2 million pregnant women globally each year, with 63% of cases occurring in sub-Saharan Africa. Untreated infection during pregnancy can lead to vertical transmission, resulting in congenital syphilis in 50–90% of cases. Global rates exceed the World Health …
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Prevalence of the related treponematoses syphilis and yaws and co-occurrence of pathogens causing similar skin lesions in Ghana
Yaws affects children in tropical regions while syphilis affects sexually active adults worldwide. Despite various campaigns towards eradication of yaws and elimination of syphilis, these two diseases are still present in Ghana. The agents causing these diseases, two Treponema pallidum subspecies, …
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Applicability of the Theory of Planned Behavior to explain clinicians’ intention to screen men who have sex with men for syphilis infection
Syphilis prevention in the United States continues to be an enduring public health challenge. Although syphilis is a curable infection, if left untreated it can result in severe, debilitating and potentially life-threatening complications. Routine screening for syphilis in high-risk populations …
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Political Accommodation: The Effects of Booker T. Washington's Leadership and Legacy on Tuskegee University and The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment.
<p>In this re-evaluation of the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, I identify the original causes that made the Study emerge, examine why the intent of this research shifted over time, reveal the manner in which the Study was conducted, expose the role the government played in the manipulation of the …
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Whisper out loud!: Spirochete, a living newspaper, 1937-1939, produced by the Federal Theatre Project: an instrument for public health education in the war on syphilis
… Newspaper Spirochete, a dramatized history of syphilis, and its relationship to public health education during the late 1930s. The materials for this historical case study were found in the Library of Congress Federal Theatre Project Special Collection, Fenwick Library, George Mason University, …
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Survey of recent methods of diagnosis and treatment of interstitial keratitis, and an analysis of the results of treatment in a series of 105 cases
… it as being directly due to Inherited Syphilis. In this work Hutchinson mentions that Dr Mackenzie had already devoted a section of his treatise to a description of what he termed, "Scrofulous Corneitis ", and stated, "that it is specifically different from every other ophthalmia". We …
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