Case 1: A previously healthy 51-year-old man came to hospital complaining of headache of 3 weeks' duration and several days of nausea, vomiting and confusion. He had some difficulty recalling the ...

Invasion of the central nervous system occurs in nearly all patients during the early stages of syphilis, usually during the first year of the infection. Early neurosyphilis is essentially a ...

A man was diagnosed with a syphilis infection in the brain, known as neurosyphilis, after he struggled to walk and talk normally for months, according to a recent case report. The 50-year-old man’s ...

The Victorian-era disease is plaguing booming Alberta. Who is to blame? Ghosts, the 1881 Henrik Ibsen play in which syphilis signifies “the tragedy of heredity,” was a death knell for the 19th century ...

Treponema pallidum, a spirochete, causes syphilis and is spread through contact with infectious lesions or body fluids. An ulcerative skin lesion, known as chancre, typically develops at the site of ...