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A 58-year-old woman presenting with 3-week-prolonged fever was referred to our department. Her present history and physical examination results were unremarkable. Her activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT) was prolonged. Upon further investigation, anticardiolipin/beta2-glycoprotein I complex
1. Multiple, unsustained fevers (41-42 degrees C.) produced by irradiation in a high frequency electrostatic field (10,000 kilocycles) destroyed T. pallidum in rabbits with active syphilitic lesions as determined by the injection into normal rabbits of extracts prepared from their testes and
A homosexual man presented with a persistent high fever and a pruritic maculopapular eruption. All symptoms abated following penicillin treatment. Physicians should be aware that syphilis may present as a fever of unknown origin.
We report an unusual case of recurrent fever, inflammatory knee pain, genu varum, persistent anemia, and high erythrocyte sedimentation rate in a 28-month-old boy as late manifestations of congenital syphilis (CS). Despite standard penicillin treatment at the end of the first month of life, it
A 73-year-old man presented with fever and hypotension, which had developed a few hours after receiving treatment with benzyl-penicillin for secondary syphilis. These symptoms were due to the so-called Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction. The patient was admitted to hospital and treated with prednisone and
A man aged 30 had been suffering from episodes of fever for several weeks. He had diarrhoea and had developed generalized maculopapular exanthema that also affected the palms of his hands and soles of his feet. After viral causes were excluded the symptoms proved to be caused by syphilis. His