Due to changes in sexual behavior, a new approach to clinically evaluating sexually-transmitted diseases (STDs) is needed in order to detect primary and secondary findings in sites which are not ...

Here’s a gripping conversation starter to bring up over your family’s Thanksgiving feast this year: Health officials in Michigan have identified an alarming cluster of syphilis infections in women’s ...

Syphilis cases caused by Treponema pallidum are rising in Germany, across Europe, and worldwide, fuelling a resurgence of ocular disease. Once largely confined to patients with HIV, this condition is ...

Biopsy of a lesion can be an additional diagnostic tool for syphilis. Typical histology of secondary syphilis demonstrates perivascular or lichenoid mixed inflammatory infiltrate such as plasma cells ...

Syphilis is a sexually transmitted infection that can cause lesions, rashes, and fevers. Michigan health officials reported a cluster of syphilis infections in the eye. Ocular syphilis is typically ...

When Dr. Susan Girois was training as a physician in the 1990s, she doesn’t remember diagnosing a single case of syphilis. Today, four or five patients a week regularly appear at a clinic run by the ...

Detroit — Back from the brink of eradication, syphilis is spiking in Michigan, prompting alarm within the medical community. Mirroring national patterns, the number of syphilis cases doubled in ...