Small chancre sores appear with syphilis, a sexually transmitted infection (STI), in the primary stage. A reddish brown rash ...

Never ignore painless genital sores. Even if they don’t hurt, they could be an early sign of syphilis, a serious infection.

Syphilis cases in the US hit a 1950s high Learn about symptoms stages and the latest strategies to combat this resurging ...

Primary syphilis happens two to 12 weeks after exposure to T. pallidum. During this stage, a smooth, hard sore called a chancre will develop on your genitals, anus, or mouth. Most cases involve ...

Several weeks following the primary chancre, hematogenous dissemination occurs, resulting in the clinical syndrome of secondary syphilis. The classic features of secondary syphilis are skin rash ...

You generally see one or multiple small sores (which doctors call “chancres”) within three weeks of being exposed to the syphilis bacteria, Gleaton added. Chancres are highly contagious and ...

Offering optional syphilis tests in the emergency room can lead to dramatic results, UChicago Medicine researchers have found. In a study of some 300,000 emergency department encounters in Chicago ...

On August 16 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized the sale of the first over-the-counter at-home test for syphilis in an effort to contain a national surge in the sexually transmitted ...

The Annals of Pharmacotherapy. 2008;42(2):226-236. Latent syphilis is a stage in which patients are seroreactive but asymptomatic. [24] It occurs between the disappearance of secondary syphilis ...

Medically reviewed by Soma Mandal, MDMedically reviewed by Soma Mandal, MD Syphilis, a sexually transmitted infection (STI) caused by the Treponema pallidum (T. pallidum) bacterium, is curable at ...