Paul Ehrlich (1854-1915) was born in East Prussia (now Poland), the son of a lottery-office keeper. He went to the University of Leipzig to pursue a career in medicine. By the time he graduated in ...

The number of primary and secondary syphilis cases in young women rose dramatically in the late 1980s and early 1990s, due to illicit drug use and the exchange of drugs for sex. Of infants born to ...

Malone JL; Wallace MR; Hendrick BB; LaRocco A; Tonon E; Brodine SK; Bowler WA; Lavin BS; Hawkins RE; Oldfield EC OBJECTIVE: To describe clinical and treatment aspects of syphilis infection among ...

Syphilis is a curable sexually transmitted infection caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum. The infection can also be passed from a mother to her fetus during pregnancy. As a cause of genital ...