Finally, the researchers used the 1990 - 99 and 2008 national estimates to assess if four potentially relevant country - level factors, namely access to efficient syphilis screening and treatment, health expenditure, GDP per capita, and circumcision prevalence, were correlated with
syphilis prevalence over that time period.
In black South Africans and in Zimbabwe, however,
syphilis prevalence remained around 6 % until 50 years after the introduction of penicillin.
The researchers review other evidence that found strong correlations between
syphilis prevalence and those of Herpes Simplex Virus - 2 prevalence and HIV prevalence.
The researchers started with a systematic review of countries with published antenatal
syphilis prevalence (ASP) estimates from pre-1952 till the present.
Not exact matches
To estimate the
prevalence of positive serology among potential donors to a human milk bank.Retrospective review of our experience with donor serological testing at our milk bank over a 6 - year interval.Not - for - profit, regional human milk bank.Volunteer, unpaid potential donors of human milk.Serological testing for
syphilis, HIV, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, human T cell lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV - 1) and human T cell lymphotropic virus type 2 (HTLV - 2).
We've always seen higher
prevalence of
syphilis in the South.
The
prevalence of sexually transmitted infections, including
syphilis, rectal gonorrhoea or chlamydia, did not differ significantly between groups despite a suggestion of risk compensation among a small proportion of PrEP recipients.
They argue that their study contributes to this increasing body of evidence that finds that populations with high HIV
prevalences had higher rates of other
syphilis and HSV - 2 in the pre-HIV era.
They found that the
prevalence of
syphilis plummeted in a number of countries where it had remained high around the time of the AIDS epidemic in the late 1990s.
on the population of Rhode Island, which found rapid year - on - year increases in the
prevalence of HIV,
syphilis and gonorrhea.