Researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have found that a single injection of the antibiotic benzathine penicillin G (BPG) successfully treated early syphilis just as well as the ...

Drugmaker Pfizer is warning doctors that it expects to run low on supplies of Bicillin L-A, a long-acting injection of the antibiotic penicillin, the preferred option for treating syphilis during ...

Forty-two babies in Australia died from congenital syphilis between 2011 and 2025, with the outbreak driving health workers ...

Amid the nationwide spike in congenital syphilis, experts recommend increased screening for all pregnant mothers. Photo by freestocks on Unsplash Syphilis cases in the U.S. have spiked in the last ...

Sexually transmitted infections have been on the rise in the United States since 2014, with 2.3 million cases reported in 2023. Some of the most common infections in this epidemic include chlamydia, ...

The United States has a shortage of the only first-line medication recommended for pregnant women with syphilis to prevent ...

For many years, syphilis treatment was considered straightforward due to the universal susceptibility of Treponema pallidum subsp. pallidum (TPA) to penicillin antibiotics. This finding indicates that ...

During its second stage, syphilis may lead to a rash on one or several parts of the body. It most commonly affects the trunk, palms of the hands, and soles of the feet. The rash typically does not ...

In Ontario, 1 in 5 pregnancies do not receive timely first-trimester screening for syphilis, according to new research. In a population-based retrospective cohort study of more than 550,000 ...