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 ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is calling for urgent physician action after nearly 3800 infants were born with syphilis in 2022, a more than 10-fold increase from 2012. That action ...

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 US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) has issued an updated draft recommendation statement advising early screening for syphilis in all pregnant persons with no signs or symptoms of syphilis, ...

Several conditions can cause a false-positive syphilis test result. However, healthcare professionals often use two different tests to diagnose a person with syphilis. Syphilis is a sexually ...

This 1972 microscope image provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a Treponema pallidum bacterium which causes the disease syphilis. (Susan Lindsley/CDC via AP) The nation’s ...

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) renewed its recommendation for early and universal screening for syphilis during pregnancy. In line with its 2018 guidance, the update, published in ...

The sharp rise in maternal syphilis cases has coincided with an alarming spike in congenital syphilis, or cases when a baby becomes infected before birth. In infants, syphilis can be a severe, ...

HERE ON U.S. SOIL. THERE IS AN URGENT ALERT TONIGHT ABOUT SYPHILIS. THE NUMBER OF AMERICANS DIAGNOSED WITH A SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED INFECTION HAS NOW APPARENTLY SURGED TO THE HIGHEST LEVEL WE’VE SEEN ...

Women giving birth in the U.S. are now three times more likely to have syphilis than they were in 2016, according to a report published Tuesday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and ...