Serology testing continues to be an indispensable tool for the management of several disease states, especially treponemal screening to monitor syphilis infection in the US. Come to this educational ...
Syphilis cases surge, sparking concerns. Deborah Sesok-Pizzini, MD, discusses what infection prevention and control personnel should know about testing evolution, prevention strategies, and ...
Following reports from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) regarding an increase in syphilis infections among all patients aged ≥15 years, a group of researchers from Las Vegas ...
For decades, syphilis testing meant first screening a patient with a nontreponemal test, such as the rapid plasma reagin (RPR) test, which identifies recent or untreated syphilis but can yield ...
As part of the support to countries of the Latin American and Caribbean Region (LAC), regarding the implementation of the Strategy and Action Plan for the Elimination of Mother-to-Child Transmission ...
In the U.S., syphilis is at its highest rate since 1950, with a nearly 80% increase since 2018, while babies born with syphilis have surged 937% in the past decade. Symptoms of the sexually ...