It is the authors' practice to advise repeat screening in the third trimester. Syphilis is caused by the spirochete Treponema pallidum. The incubation period of primary syphilis is 9–90 days.

The rising global incidence of syphilis underscores the risk of transmission through blood transfusions. Treponema pallidum, the pathogen responsible for syphilis, represents a major public health ...

Quantum mechanics has long classified particles into just two distinct types: fermions and bosons. Now physicists from Rice University in the US have found a third type might be possible after all, at ...

Antiviral drugs can help shorten or prevent such attacks. Syphilis is a curable bacterial STI caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum that accounted for roughly 209,000 new cases in 2023. Syphilis ...

The history of syphilis has long been debated, with experts unable to come to a consensus over the origins of the outbreak that rocked Europe in the 16th century. New research reveals the bacterium ...

Bacteria are also responsible for syphilis, which transmits through vaginal, anal, or oral sex without a condom or other barrier method. It can also transmit through contact with an infected area.

Accusatory finger-pointing about the scourge, syphilis, began almost immediately. The Italians called it “the French disease”; the French called it “the Neapolitan disease”; the Russians ...

Syphilis is increasing in men who have sex with men and disproportionately affects HIV-infected men. Here we review the epidemiology, diagnostic techniques, treatment guidelines, follow-up ...

Syphilis originated in the Americas 8,000 years ago. But there#s evidence that 15th Century colonialists spread the disease worldwide — in five years. Syphilis and Christopher Columbus have more ...

Helen Edwards was a particle physicist who led the design and construction of the Tevatron, a machine built to probe deeper into the atom than anyone had gone before.