syphilis

by Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity edited by Lisa Lock, reviewed by Robert Egan  Editors’ notes  The GIST Add as preferred source World-first portable point-of-care test for four common sexually transmitted infections at once, in under an hour. Credit: Doherty Institute Researchers at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity (Doherty Institute) have developed a […]

Summary author: Walter Beckwith Peer-Reviewed Publication American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) A newly sequenced genome of the bacterium that causes syphilis, Treponema pallidum, highlights the deep antiquity of treponemal diseases in the Americas. The findings, based on a 5,500-year-old specimen from Colombia, suggest syphilis’s emergence was not dependent on the agricultural intensification and population

by National Institutes of Health edited by Sadie Harley, reviewed by Robert Egan   Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Researchers have found that a single injection of the antibiotic benzathine penicillin G (BPG) successfully treated early syphilis just as well as the three-injection regimen used by many clinicians in the United States and elsewhere. These findings from a late-stage