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 ...

WHAT: In a clinical trial involving HIV-negative volunteers with early-stage syphilis, researchers have found that antibiotic pills (azithromycin) are as effective as penicillin injections in curing ...

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 ...

For the last few decades, syphilis has been re-emerging around the world. This may seem surprising; it can be treated successfully with antibiotics, after all. Yet, amid failures in public health ...

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 ...

SEATTLE - An antibiotic often used as an alternative to penicillin in the treatment of syphilis has been shown by scientists to be ineffective against an increasingly common strain of this re-emerging ...

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 ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This study aimed to reassess rates of syphilis azithromycin resistance in Dublin. Of the 104 samples, 36 (34.6%) were positive for Treponema ...