For decades, syphilis testing meant first screening a patient with a nontreponemal test, such as the rapid plasma reagin (RPR) test, which identifies recent or untreated syphilis but can yield ...

Infants whose mothers had syphilis during pregnancy were studied to determine how often exposed newborns with normal physical examinations and nonreactive nontreponemal serologic tests had abnormal ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Higher rapid plasma reagin, or RPR, titers at diagnosis and a diagnosis made in more recent years are associated ...

Treponema pallidum, a spirochete, causes syphilis and is spread through contact with infectious lesions or body fluids. An ulcerative skin lesion, known as chancre, typically develops at the site of ...

Emily H. Adhikari, MD, discusses a clinical practice algorithm designed to help clinicians evaluate patients for syphilis.

An Iowa State Department of Health laboratory test for syphilis. The object is composed of four parts: a mailing tube, two test tubes, and a form. The mailing tube is made of a cardboard tube with ...