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 into communities to raise awareness of the old-world disease.

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 ...

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 ...