A study on point-of-care testing has shown how Syphilis Health Check™ could help significantly improve syphilis screening rates among pregnant patients with limited access to prenatal care, bridging ...

Background: More laboratories are screening for syphilis with automated treponemal immunoassays. We compared direct costs and downstream consequences when a local public health laboratory switches ...

Cornelis A. Rietmeijer, More Mungati, Peter H. Kilmarx, Beth Tippett Barr, Elizabeth Gonese, Ranmini S. Kularatne, David A. Lewis, Jeffrey D. Klausner, Luanne Rodgers ...

Electron micrograph imagery of Treponema pallidum, the bacteria that cause syphilis, including a foreground close-up of a single particle (right). Spiral-shaped bacteria are colorized in gold. The ...

A free syphilis testing site that was open in March 2023 in response to a sharp increase in infections is seen in this photo provided by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government. TOKYO -- Syphilis, a ...

With syphilis cases soaring 80% in adults and an astounding 183% in congenital cases — when a pregnant person passes syphilis to their baby during pregnancy or childbirth — from the years 2018-22, the ...

The INSTI® Multiplex HIV-1/2 Syphilis Antibody Test delivers highly accurate results in just 60 seconds with a single sample—the fastest dual HIV/syphilis rapid test available. Now included in the ...

TOKYO -- Local governments in Japan are urging caution and calling for early testing due to a rapid rise in syphilis, with new infections on pace with last year's record number of cases.

The Tokyo metropolitan government is responding to a surge in syphilis cases by making it easier to get tested. From September, women can take a syphilis test at the Tokyo Metropolitan Testing and ...

In a recent study published in the journal Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, researchers analyzed the United States (US) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) National Notifiable ...