The impact of syphilis on humankind

Infectious Disease Clinics of North America

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 101-110

  Tramont, Edmund C ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PENICILLIN G;

ANOREXIA; ARTHRALGIA; ARTHRITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIPLOPIA; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; HEADACHE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; INOCULATION; LARYNGITIS; MALAISE; MENINGISM; MENINGITIS; MORTALITY; MOUTH ULCER; NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; OSTEITIS; PERIOSTITIS; PHARYNGITIS; PYREXIA IDIOPATHICA; RASH; REVIEW; SECONDARY SYPHILIS; SEROLOGY; SYPHILIS; TINNITUS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; VERTIGO; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

HISTORY, 15TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 16TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; SOCIOLOGY; SYPHILIS;

EID: 1842688133     PISSN: 08915520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0891-5520(03)00092-8     Document Type: Review

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