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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
This image shows a poster created by Japanese government bodies including the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare calling on people to be aware of the dangers of congenital syphilis. The number of ...
Oct. 19—Back when Dr. Jaleh Akhavan was in her residency about five years ago, syphilis was considered a rare sight in a expectant mother. No longer. "Now I probably see it maybe one to two times a ...