In a clinical trial involving HIV-negative volunteers with early-stage syphilis, researchers have found that antibiotic pills (azithromycin) are as effective as penicillin injections in curing ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Oral azithromycin was as safe and effective as benzathine penicillin G for the treatment of early syphilis in ...

Background. Syphilis remains an important source of morbidity worldwide. Long-acting penicillin is the only therapy currently recommended for syphilis in much of the world. Because of hesitation to ...

Riedner G, Rusizoka M, Todd J, et al. Single-dose azithromycin versus penicillin G benzathine for the treatment of early syphilis. N Engl J Med. 2005;353:1236-1244. The study authors compared the ...

A fast-spreading mutant strain of syphilis has proved resistant to the antibiotic pills that are offered to some patients as an alternative to painful penicillin shots. Since the late 1990s, doctors ...

Public-sector investment in research, drug development and prevention of sexually transmitted diseases is "nonexistent" and must be increased before the spread of drug-resistant infectious diseases ...

A large study finds that a single oral dose of azithromycin can be curative in patients with early syphilis. Even after all these years, a single dose of intramuscular penicillin G remains the ...

Over the last few decades, an age-old infectious disease has been re-emerging globally: syphilis. Using techniques to analyze low levels of DNA, an international research team has now shown that all ...

To the Editor: In their study on the treatment of early syphilis, Riedner et al. (Sept. 22 issue) 1 concluded that the wider use of oral azithromycin should be encouraged as part of syphilis-control ...

Some strains of the bacterium that causes syphilis have developed a mutation that makes them resistant to Zithromax (known generically as azithromycin), doctors warn in this week's New England Journal ...

For the last few decades, syphilis has been re-emerging around the world. This may seem surprising; it can be treated successfully with antibiotics, after all. Yet, amid failures in public health ...

WHAT: In a clinical trial involving HIV-negative volunteers with early-stage syphilis, researchers have found that antibiotic pills (azithromycin) are as effective as penicillin injections in curing ...