Rare symptoms popping up among syphilis patients, physicians say Strange symptoms in syphilis cases are appearing sooner and in higher incidence rates than normal, CNN reported April 26.

More than two-thirds of these patients (68%) lacked typical syphilis symptoms, like a rash or chancre sore, that might tip doctors off to the infection.

As a result, pregnant syphilis patients are often given penicillin, even when they're allergic, using a technique called desensitization, said Mark Turrentine, a Houston OB-GYN.

Without treatment, babies who are asymptomatic at birth can begin to show signs of the disease weeks, months or years later.

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More than two-thirds of these patients (68%) lacked typical syphilis symptoms, like a rash or chancre sore, that might tip doctors off to the infection.

She searched a citywide repository of medical records to look for cases of patients who had signs or symptoms consistent with NOO syphilis and 28 people met her case definition. Most (75%) were ...