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 ...

Remains of people who lived on the eastern coast of South America nearly 2,000 years ago have yielded the oldest known evidence for the family of microorganisms that cause syphilis 1. The origins of ...

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.

Health officials issued a new warning against syphilis, saying the sexually transmitted disease is spreading across Japan at the fastest pace in decades. As of May 21, there were 5,453 cases reported ...

A sudden increase in syphilis infections in Japan has prompted experts to call for better sex education and more testing. Around 13,000 cases of the sexually transmitted disease (STD) have been ...

Syphilis is one of the oldest known sexually transmitted infections. Once thought to be in decline, it is now resurging at an alarming rate. Syphilis has been called many names since the first record ...

The number of syphilis cases in the U.S. are on the rise. According to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, cases increased by nearly 80% to more than 207,000 between 2018 ...

The Japanese word for syphilis, "baidoku," literally translates as "plum poison." It was so named from the chancres (painless ulcerations) that appear on the skin in the disease’s primary stage, which ...

TOKYO -- Cases of syphilis in Japan reached a record 13,251 this year, coinciding with a sharp increase in congenital syphilis, which is transmitted from a pregnant woman to her unborn child. The ...

The Houston Health Department has reported a syphilis outbreak, with an increase of 128% among women in the city, and a ninefold increase in congenital cases in Houston and the surrounding Harris ...