Riedner G, Rusizoka M, Todd J, et al. Single-dose azithromycin versus penicillin G benzathine for the treatment of early syphilis. N Engl J Med. 2005;353:1236-1244. The study authors compared the ...

Background. Syphilis remains an important source of morbidity worldwide. Long-acting penicillin is the only therapy currently recommended for syphilis in much of the world. Because of hesitation to ...

Although penicillin remains the only recommended therapy for syphilis, both frequent patient report of allergies, as well as barriers to parenteral administration, such as large volumes of ...

A fast-spreading mutant strain of syphilis has proved resistant to the antibiotic pills that are offered to some patients as an alternative to painful penicillin shots. Since the late 1990s, doctors ...

Public-sector investment in research, drug development and prevention of sexually transmitted diseases is "nonexistent" and must be increased before the spread of drug-resistant infectious diseases ...

Over the last few decades, an age-old infectious disease has been re-emerging globally: syphilis. Using techniques to analyze low levels of DNA, an international research team has now shown that all ...

Syphilis, a sexually transmitted disease that is on the rise in the United States, may be developing resistance to one of the antibiotics used to treat it, according to a federal study released on ...