The hepatitis studies were negative, as was her HIV test. I had to flip through 15 more pages
before I found her syphilis test: it was whoppingly positive. Of course. The great imitator …

The senior resident presented his management of a 30-year-old man who was there for a
“checkup.” He had taken a detailed family history, reviewed the patient's health risks, and …

As the 1990s ended, syphilis was on the decline. At least in part due to safer sexual
behaviors prompted by the AIDS epidemic, 1 the rate of incident syphilis declined to fewer …

E226 CMAJ| FEBRUARY 26, 2018| VOLUME 190| ISSUE 8 admonished myself for being
worried about touching his skin on physical examination. I knew the risk of HIV transmission …

" As we expected, you've got secondary syphilis. The good news is that penicillin is a highly
effective treatment and so we should be able to clear this up pretty quickly. Unfortunately, Mr …

I had forgotten what terror feels like. While at my physician's recently for a physical, I casually
asked him to add an HIV antibody test together with the usual blood and urine analyses. I …

Iblinked several times, looked away, and briefly thought of other things. The elderly woman
in the chair across from me was accompanied by her husband and son. They were a rural …

AS WE WERE COMING TO THE END OF A BRIEF OFFICE visit, my patient, a 56-year-old
former injection drug user with HIV, turned to me with a smile as he stood and said,“Hey …

In this issue, Su and colleagues report that compared with white MSM, black MSM are more
than 8 times more likely and Hispanic MSM are more than twice as likely to have syphilis …

To the Editor: In their Perspective article, Tucker et al.(May 6 issue) 1 report that rapid
increases in cases of congenital syphilis in China have generated great concern. Although …