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- Title
Primary Syphilis in the Male Urethra: A Case Report.
- Authors
Chambers, Laura C; Srinivasan, Sujatha; Lukehart, Sheila A; Ocbamichael, Negusse; Morgan, Jennifer L; Lowens, M Sylvan; Fredricks, David N; Golden, Matthew R; Manhart, Lisa E
- Abstract
We documented urethral Treponema pallidum infection in a man with nongonococcal urethritis and a negative syphilis serology using broad-range bacterial polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and sequencing, targeted PCR, and immunofluorescence microscopy. He subsequently seroconverted for syphilis. Early syphilis may present as urethritis. Urethral T. pallidum shedding can occur before seroconversion.
- Subjects
DIAGNOSIS of syphilis; FLUORESCENT antibody technique; POLYMERASE chain reaction; URETHRA; URETHRITIS; SEROCONVERSION; SEQUENCE analysis
- Publication
Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2019, Vol 68, Issue 7, p1231
- ISSN
1058-4838
- Publication type
Case Study
- DOI
10.1093/cid/ciy771