South Africa faces a significant public health challenge with a reported 1 739 congenital syphilis cases in 2023, far exceeding the global target. This article explores the implications, causes, and ...

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The positive treponemal antibody and RPR tests confirm the diagnosis of syphilis. The patient’s fever and diffuse macular rash are consistent with secondary syphilis, and his arthritis most ...

QUANTITATIVE serologic tests for syphilis have become more widely used ... as in the above case, Treponema pallidum may not be found in more than 50 per cent of the cases, 7 and quantitative ...

An Aussie company has developed a new self-testing kit for a sexually transmitted infection, which has been described as an “epidemic” across Australia. Following the success of their HIV kit ...

or "dongle," which enables a triplex ELISA test that provides results for HIV, treponemal, and non-treponemal antibodies. [57] Point of care syphilis testing in low resource settings may soon ...

If they have not been previously treated, patients with reactive results from treponemal tests and nonreactive results from nontreponemal tests should be treated for late latent syphilis.

Health Canada describes syphilis as a sexually transmitted infection caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum ... is the decrease in screening, testing and treatment during the pandemic response ...

The creators of a new test called “Humanity’s Last Exam” argue we may soon lose the ability to create tests hard enough for A.I. models. Credit...Rune Fisker Supported by By Kevin Roose ...