NEW YORK (AP) — Alarmed by yet another jump in syphilis cases in newborns, U.S. health officials are calling for stepped-up prevention measures, including encouraging millions of women of childbearing ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a busy clinic in Jackson, Mississippi, a clinician performs a rapid syphilis test on a pregnant woman. Within 15 minutes, the results are in — she is infected — and treatment can begin immediately.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Pre-intervention, only 6.2% encounters included syphilis testing, which increased to 52.4% postintervention.

Syphilis cases have been rising at an alarming rate in the United States, according to a report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As concerns for syphilis and sexually ...

On August 16 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized the sale of the first over-the-counter at-home test for syphilis in an effort to contain a national surge in the sexually transmitted ...

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 ...

A spike in the number of babies born with syphilis has alarmed state health officials, with a vast majority of the cases reported in Milwaukee County. A blood sample positive with syphilis Congenital ...

The National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) has awarded grants for 10 projects to improve diagnostic tools for congenital and adult syphilis - ...

The CDC is warning about "dire" levels of babies born with syphilis in the U.S., with a new analysis showing a tenfold increase from 2012 to 2022. The agency's data shows that 3,761 babies were born ...

Cornelis A. Rietmeijer, More Mungati, Peter H. Kilmarx, Beth Tippett Barr, Elizabeth Gonese, Ranmini S. Kularatne, David A. Lewis, Jeffrey D. Klausner, Luanne Rodgers ...