| syphilis case-finding in an australian men's sauna club. | a survey of 623 volunteers from a popular sauna club for homosexual men in melbourne was carried out over a 12-month period. blood samples were taken for serological tests for syphilis from each subject; in 114 (18.3%) of these, the test results were positive. thirty-four subjects with positive test results (5.4%) had no previous history of syphilis. follow-up was possible in 22 of these (64.7%), which resulted in 17 new cases of syphilis being detected and treated (a case incidence of 2.7%). bl ... | 1983 | 6415378 |
| lack of serological evidence for venereal spirochaetosis in wild victorian rabbits and the susceptibility of laboratory rabbits to treponema paraluis-cuniculi. | sera from 608 wild rabbits were examined using serological tests for syphilis as an indicator of infection with treponema paraluis-cuniculi. only eight sera gave positive or weakly positive results in the rapid plasma reagin (rpr) test, and none of these eight sera gave positive results in the treponema pallidum haemagglutination assay (tpha). thus, it appears that wild rabbit populations in victoria, australia, are not naturally infected with t paraluis-cuniculi. normal australian laboratory ra ... | 1980 | 6893808 |
| ocular syphilis in victoria: four new cases and a brief discussion of the current victorian experience. | | 2008 | 18352886 |
| molecular subtyping of treponema pallidum during a local syphilis epidemic in men who have sex with men in melbourne, australia. | treponema pallidum is the causative agent of syphilis, a sexually transmitted infection of significant public health importance. since 2000 there has been a marked increase in the number of cases of syphilis infections notified in victoria, australia, with the majority of cases occurring in men who have sex with men (msm) and the highest incidence being in hiv-infected msm. the molecular subtyping method described by pillay et al. (a. pillay et al., sex. transm. dis. 25:408-414, 1998) has been u ... | 2012 | 22422857 |