| screening and empiric treatment for syphilis in an inner-city emergency department. | to examine targeted screening and empiric treatment for syphilis in an urban ed. | 1995 | 7584762 |
| syphilis screening in out-of-hospital care. | to estimate the rates of syphilis infection in inner-city patients managed by prehospital providers, a convenience sampling of prehospital patients who had intravenous lines initiated was screened for syphilis over a nine-month study period from february 1992 through october 1992. in a university-affiliated inner-city emergency department served by a city ambulance company, patients 18 years of age or older transported via ambulance who had had intravenous lines initiated at the scene or en rout ... | 1995 | 7605524 |
| treponematosis and lyme borreliosis connections: explanation for tchefuncte disease syndromes? | a convergence of evidence from macroscopic, radiographic and histologic examination indicates that treponemal infection was present in the 16st1 tchefuncte indian burial population, dated 500 b.c. to 300 a.d. pattern and nature of lesions suggests that chronic infection induced by variants of the spirochete treponema pallidum, causing endemic syphilis and/or yaws, resulted in third-stage osseous response. it is suggested that tchefuncte indians acquired partial immunity to treponemal infection b ... | 1994 | 8048468 |
| high syphilis rates among cocaine abusers identified in an emergency department. | the recent syphilis epidemic in the united states has been linked to cocaine abuse. the goal of this study was to estimate the prevalence of newly diagnosed latent syphilis, as well as previously treated syphilis, in emergency department patients giving a history of cocaine use. charity hospital emergency department patients without symptoms of sexually transmitted disease (std) who admitted to cocaine use were enrolled and screened for syphilis with the automated reagin test (art). patients wer ... | 1993 | 8503061 |
| prehistoric juvenile rheumatoid arthritis in a precontact louisiana native population reconsidered. | descriptions of skeletal pathological conditions evident in the prehistoric tchefuncte adolescent 16st1-14883b are clarified. the basis is reaffirmed for assigning to the described pathological conditions a diagnostic perspective of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis or juvenile lyme disease--a disease that mimics juvenile rheumatoid arthritis in its arthritic presentation--rather than of assigning them as representative of juvenile onset ankylosing spondylitis or other juvenile spondyloarthropathies ... | 1998 | 9637186 |
| seropositivity of the rapid plasma reagin (rpr) test in a dental school patient population: a retrospective study. | the purpose of this retrospective study was to determine the seropositivity of the rapid plasma reagin (rpr) in a dental school patient population. | 2003 | 12597587 |