Wednesday, 5 September 2018

PRO/EDR> Syphilis - Brazil: ocular, HIV-negative

Syphilis -- Brazil
"Recent reports from different world regions suggest ocular syphilis is re-emerging, in parallel with an increasing incidence of the systemic infection globally. We conducted a large observational study of 127 persons consecutively treated for ocular syphilis at public medical centers in Brazil over a 2.5-year period ending July 2015. Of 104 individuals serologically tested for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), 34.6% were positive. Ophthalmological evaluations included measurement of Snellen

Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?6010223&promed&0

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