(1) Lue-M3 is mainly a monocyte marker, and retinoids thus seem to induce a shift from monocytoid to myeloid differentiation.
(2) Differential diagnosis includes tulareaemia, cat scratch syndrome, lues, and foreign body reaction.
(3) Also, the average value was higher in the lues-seropositive group than that in the lues-seronegative group.
(4) About the cases of treated lues at different stages, in 23 samples with VDRL negative has been found no positivity at three tests used, while in 49 samples with VDRL positive 8 are resulted positive at 19S IgM FTA-ABS.
(5) In addition to the usual periosteal and metaphyseal bone lesions of lues, areas of focal lucencies and sequestra were present.
(6) Two-dimensional electrophoresis (2-DE) of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) samples--from 347 patients with various psychiatric and neurological disorders--and subsequent silver staining revealed two additional polypeptides (Mr 40,000) in 49% of 111 schizophrenics, 46% of 43 schizoaffective patients, 36% of 41 patients with affective disorders, 43% of 28 patients with multiple sclerosis, but not in 25 patients without neurological symptomatology, nor in 9 patients with Lues, and in only 2 of 25 patients with AIDS.
(7) A protocol of search and eventual control of these pathologies has been developed, in which lues, HBV and HIV infections received particular attention.
(8) The test can be a precious diagnostic tool since, beside allowing to decide the recovery from the disease from an immunological point, finds further applications in the connatal and neurological lues.
(9) Moreover, visual acuity is much better correlated with CS than with LUE.
(10) These findings have been rarely reported in early congenital lues.
(11) Abnormalities demonstrated on upper-gastrointestinal series and a positive FTA-ABS suggested gastric lues.
(12) The result of the investigation, performed on 58 patients, demonstrated a high incidence of serum positivity with respect to lues and HBV markers (the later infection seems to be due both to the sexual behaviour and to narcotic addiction).
(13) There seems to be a pattern of progression of ALS signs and symptoms based on area of onset with LLE involvement tending to follow RLE weakness, LUE weakness following RUE onset, and RUE involvement following next in patients whose onset is bulbar.
(14) c) The serological identification of the antibodies present in luetic sera, obtained by associating selected treponemal and non-treponemal tests (VDRL, FTA-5, FTA-ABS, CF-ATPS) enables us to correlate the serological data with the main biological phases of lues, even during the periods of clinical latency of the disease.
(15) The Lues tests were negative during pregnancy but a displacental transfer of pathogenic agents could be assumed.
(16) The antibody titer in serum to Streptococcus pyogenes L-form and Staphylococcus aureus L-form were determined by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay in 28 patients with Behçet's disease, 31 patients with other uveitis (sarcoidosis: 10, Harada's disease: 5, tuberculosis: 4, rheumatoid arthritis: 4, lues: 2, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis: 2, herpes simplex: 2, trauma: 2) and 16 healthy normal controls.
(17) These are: congenital changes, trauma, metabolic neuropathies, Meniere's disease, noise-induced hearing loss, lues, sudden hearing loss, and unilateral symptoms of undetermined etiology.
(18) The specimens were obtained from a 63-year-old white male with acquired lues.
(19) To identify the characteristic features of lues in patients infected with HIV, 402 HIV-positive patients were examined for serological and clinical signs of lues.
(20) The authors' experience shows that the following examinations are useful in the diagnosis of acute unilateral sensorineural hearing loss: the recording of acoustically evoked brainstem potentials, an otoneurological examination, a neurological examination to detect a possible centrally located reason for the hearing loss, serological examinations for lues, toxoplasmosis, Borrelia, and the virus KBR if there is any suspicion of a previous virus infection.
Syphilis
Definition:
(n.) The pox, or venereal disease; a chronic, specific, infectious disease, usually communicated by sexual intercourse or by hereditary transmission, and occurring in three stages known as primary, secondary, and tertiary syphilis. See under Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sera of 375 blood donors which were seropositive for syphilis were examined for antibodies against Entamoeba histolytica.
(2) The dramatic nationwide increase of primary and secondary syphilis in women has precipitated a dramatic rise in congenital syphilis.
(3) These structures were also found in the blood or spinal fluid (SF) of asymptomatic patients with both positive and negative serological tests for syphilis.
(4) These findings provide a framework for future investigations of our congenital syphilis model.
(5) Several months later, as the patient experienced relapses with cerebellar and spinal cord involvement, falsely positive tests for syphilis were found and an antibiotic treatment was given.
(6) The expression of such secondary and tertiary syphilis is commonly masked and distorted by the long-term effects of subcurative doses of antibiotics; in fact, late latent and tertiary syphilis produce symptoms and immunosuppression similar to the profile of AIDS.
(7) The CSF-TPHA test was positive in four out of 12 children, and the CSF-VDRL test was negative in all the children with active congenital syphilis.
(8) Binding of aCL in syphilis to solid phase CL was competitively inhibited by either addition of the cofactor or fluid phase CL.
(9) Serological tests for hepatitis A (HA) and B (HB), syphilis and HIV were performed on blood samples from 3 groups of homosexual men: 220 and 124 asymptomatic men being investigated in 1978 and 1980 respectively and another 98 men suffering from HA during the winter 1979-80.
(10) To evaluate the effect of ceftriaxone in treating latent syphilis or asymptomatic neurosyphilis in patients infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
(11) Lyme borreliosis has in common features with another spirochetosis, syphilis, e.g.
(12) Compared to cases in the previous year, infectious syphilis cases among prostitutes and seasonal farm workers decreased 51.3 per cent and 26.8 per cent, respectively.
(13) A clinically manifest primary or secondary syphilis that develops during pregnancy has become an extremely rare occurrence.
(14) Beside being responsible for positivity of the VDRL test in the context of syphilis, APAB (false serological reactions for syphilis, LA, anticardiolipin antibodies) have also been detected in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and lupus-like syndromes, after intake of certain drugs, and, more rarely, in a number of diseases (table I).
(15) A protocol outline for diagnosis and therapy of syphilis is included in the discussion.
(16) Cryptococcosis occurred in association with toxoplasmosis in one patient who developed syphilis in the follow-up; oligoclonal distribution of gamma globulins occurred in this case.
(17) However, the treatment failed to prevent infection in the infant, and the baby had developed signs of congenital syphilis at 10 weeks of age.
(18) The protocol was devised by first evaluating a range of kits in London using a battery of African and non-African sera and then field testing 1455 sera in Malaŵi, which included 184 sera from leprosy patients and 60 sera from syphilis patients to check for cross-reactivity.
(19) Individual sequelae are most significnat when congenital syphilis is allowed to develop due to delays in treating the pregnant woman or newborn child.
(20) There is a suggestion of a plateau having occurred in adult and congenital syphilis, possibly caused by saturation effect on the high-risk population.