Invasion of the central nervous system occurs in nearly all patients during the early stages of syphilis, usually during the first year of the infection. Early neurosyphilis is essentially a ...

Despite its recognition for centuries as “the great imitator,” neurosyphilis remains a diagnostic challenge because of its wide spectrum of presentations. Here we describe 3 men with neurosyphilis in ...

CHICAGO -- Disease detectives in Chicago say they have been seeing a worrisome trend: Patients complaining of unusual symptoms like vision and eye problems, headaches and hearing loss or dizziness ...

Researchers have found that a single injection of the antibiotic benzathine penicillin G (BPG) successfully treated early syphilis just as well as the three-injection regimen used by many clinicians ...