STD Testing Clinics examined news reports, academic research, and government data to explain why STI rates in the United ...

A large study finds that a single oral dose of azithromycin can be curative in patients with early syphilis. Even after all these years, a single dose of intramuscular penicillin G remains the ...

Favorable results have been reported in late cutaneous syphilis. 2 Recently ... palate who had received 2,400,000 Oxford units of penicillin before admission, without improvement.

Penicillin therapy for secondary syphilis ... on the finding of a single normal spinal-fluid specimen in early syphilis before or immediately after therapy. A negative spinal-fluid examination ...

Long-acting penicillin remains the recommended treatment for early syphilis, and in the case of pregnant women, the only acceptable treatment. Alternative effective therapies have been explored ...

Today, antibiotics can treat the disease ... because it would mean that syphilis was already present in Europe before his return. The international team from this recent study, however, examined ...

Penicillin was first used in the treatment of syphilis as recently as 1943, and it is now known that the doses originally used were inadequate. We cannot, therefore, begin to estimate the value of ...

despite the fact that it is easily cured with antibiotics. But the scientific debate still rages about the ancient origins of syphilis — including why the wave of illness that swamped ...

Macrolide Resistance: The ability of bacteria to withstand the effects of macrolide antibiotics, which are used to treat various infections. Treponema pallidum: The bacterium that causes syphilis ...