Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Higher rapid plasma reagin, or RPR, titers at diagnosis and a diagnosis made in more recent years are associated ...

The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol. 165, No. 6 (Jun., 1992), pp. 1124-1126 (3 pages) The prevalence of biologic false-positive (BFP) reactions for syphilis (reactive rapid plasma reagin [RPR] ...

After a 2-day training course at the Venereal Disease Research Laboratory, 28 nontechnical venereal disease investigators performed the rapid plasma reagin card test on more than 3,900 persons. The ...

Data from a large study of syphilis indicate a high rate of neurosyphilis in HIV-infected patients with a CD4-cell count less than or equal to 350 or a serum RPR titer greater than or equal to 1:32.

Treponema pallidum, a spirochete, causes syphilis and is spread through contact with infectious lesions or body fluids. An ulcerative skin lesion, known as chancre, typically develops at the site of ...

Syphilis is a curable sexually transmitted infection caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum. The infection can also be passed from a mother to her fetus during pregnancy. As a cause of genital ...

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