(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.
Syphilitic
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to syphilis; of the nature of syphilis; affected with syphilis.
(n.) A syphilitic patient.
Example Sentences:
(1) Prior to intervention, adverse outcomes occurred in 58% of syphilitic pregnancies.
(2) In this study we determined the effects of the amount of SDS present in the sample solubilization buffer on one and two dimensional (1D and 2D) electrophoretic protein profiles of radiolabeled T. pallidum as well as the antigenicity of treponemal proteins as judged by Western blots of 1D and 2D gels probed with pooled secondary human syphilitic sera.
(3) These results show that the cofactor-CL complex bears an epitope that confers recognition specificity for aCL in SLE, in contrast with direct CL recognition by syphilitic aCL.
(4) These studies indicate that clindamycin is far less active than erythromycin or penicillin in treatment of established syphilitic lesions in rabbits.
(5) During syphilitic infection, these cells phagocytize, kill, and lyse Treponema pallidum.
(6) Hitler's neurological pathography is further analysed in respect to an abuse with "Antigas pills" and to some statements in the literature presuming an amphetamine-dependence, a syphilitic manifestation, an epileptic seizure in 1932, and a tremor already present in 1923.
(7) The authors discuss the relation between arteritis and syphilitic meningitis in this young woman taking oral contraceptives.
(8) We have described two histologically confirmed syphilitic abdominal aortic aneurysms arising below the renal arteries.
(9) Stimulation of the rabbit reticuloendothelial system with viable Mycobacterium bovis (strain BCG), and other agents, had no effect on the development of syphilitic lesions after intradermal or intravenous inoculation with graded doses of Treponema pallidum (virulent Nichol's strain; mean infective doses less than 10).
(10) criteria :photosensitivity, arthralgia, leukopenia and thrombopenia, false positive syphilitic serology, antinuclear factors on immunofluorescence.
(11) All patients with non-syphilitic spirochaetal infection were uncircumcised.
(12) Syphilis and its consequent central nervous system sequelae remain clinical problems, especially when presenting in the unfamiliar acute meningeal forms of syphilitic meningitis and meningovascular syphilis.
(13) A syphilitic infection was therefore also excluded as a possible cause.
(14) Although the true incidence of syphilitic gastritis is unknown, it may occur commonly during the secondary stage of syphilis and should be considered in the differential diagnosis of diffuse erosive gastritides and infiltrative lesions of the stomach.
(15) Complete recovery from syphilitic hepatitis on average took 11 months.
(16) Whereas the sensitivity of IgM- and IgG-ELISA was comparable in both antigen preparations, crossreactivity of sera from syphilitic patients was reduced in the p41 IgG-ELISA.
(17) Lymphocytes of syphilitic rabbits were found to exert a pronounced inhibitory effect upon macrophage migration as early as one month after infection; between the fourth and sixth month, a transient decrease of this capacity occurred, followed by a slow but steady increase during the next two years, i.e.
(18) Late diagnosis and treatment often resulted in poor fetal outcome: syphilitic stillbirth, two cases; probable and possible congenital syphilis, seven cases; and normal infant, two cases.
(19) A case of aorticopulmonary fistula secondary to thoracic aortic aneurysm of syphilitic origin has been presented.
(20) Successful adoptive transfer of resistance to syphilitic infection from immune donor rabbits to normal recipient rabbits employing lymph node lymphocytes was accomplished.