Variations in Clinical Presentation of Ocular Syphilis: Case Series Reported from a Growing Epidemic in the United States

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 519-523

  Marx, Grace E ^a,b   Dhanireddy, Shireesha ^c   Marrazzo, Jeanne M ^d   Tuddenham, Susan A ^e   Rompalo, Anne M ^e   Leone, Peter A ^f   Gaydos, Charlotte A ^e   Rietmeijer, Cornelis A ^a,g  

^a DENVER PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g Food Science and Human Nutrition   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; BENZATHINE PENICILLIN; CEFTRIAXONE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PENICILLIN G; PREDNISONE; STEROID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HETEROSEXUAL FEMALE; HETEROSEXUAL MALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; MALE; MEN WHO HAVE SEX WITH MEN; MONOGAMY; NEUROSYPHILIS; NONHUMAN; OCULAR SYPHILIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; SYPHILITIC UVEITIS; THERAPY DELAY; UNITED STATES; VISUAL DISORDER; BACTERIAL EYE INFECTION; CASE REPORT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; SYPHILIS SEROLOGY; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

ADULT; EYE INFECTIONS, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSYPHILIS; SYPHILIS SERODIAGNOSIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84976552311     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: 15374521     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OLQ.0000000000000477     Document Type: Article

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