"Syphilis" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
A contagious venereal disease caused by the spirochete TREPONEMA PALLIDUM.
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D013587
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C01.252.400.840.744 C01.252.810.859 C01.252.847.840.744 C01.539.778.281.859 C12.294.668.281.859 C13.351.500.711.281.859
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1997 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2002 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2006 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2010 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2016 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Syphilis" by people in Profiles.
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Hoenig LJ, Parish LC. Three dermatologists who were nominated for a Nobel Prize: Albert Neisser, Erich Hoffmann, and Aaron B. Lerner. Clin Dermatol. 2025 Mar-Apr; 43(2):253-258.
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Traczuk A, Chetrit DA, Balasubramanya R, Nwaoduah N, Lee JB, Spacek LA, Loizidis G. Musculoskeletal manifestations of syphilis in adults: secondary syphilis presenting with ankle inflammatory arthritis and bone involvement with calvarial and sternal lesions. What the rheumatologist needs to know. Clin Rheumatol. 2023 Apr; 42(4):1195-1203.
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Soares RR, Pandit RR, Dunn JP. Acute Syphilitic Placoid Posterior Chorioretinopathy. Ophthalmol Retina. 2019 12; 3(12):1090.
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Wolf R, Parish JL, Parish LC. The rash that presents as target lesions. Clin Dermatol. 2019 Mar - Apr; 37(2):148-158.
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Parish LC. The 1943 Year Book of Dermatology and Syphilology. Skinmed. 2018; 16(4):215-217.
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Kansal V, Dollin M. Acute and Painless Monocular Vision Loss in a Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Positive Man. JAMA Ophthalmol. 2017 07 01; 135(7):811-812.
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White M, Meenan K, Patel T, Jaworek A, Sataloff RT. Laboratory Evaluation of Vocal Fold Paralysis and Paresis. J Voice. 2017 Mar; 31(2):168-174.
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Sridhar J, Shahlaee A, Sharma P. En Face: Disappearing Outer Retinal Dots in Treated Syphilitic Chorioretinitis. Ophthalmology. 2016 Mar; 123(3):557.
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Moradi A, Salek S, Daniel E, Gangaputra S, Ostheimer TA, Burkholder BM, Leung TG, Butler NJ, Dunn JP, Thorne JE. Clinical features and incidence rates of ocular complications in patients with ocular syphilis. Am J Ophthalmol. 2015 Feb; 159(2):334-43.e1.
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Armstrong BK, Pitcher J, Shah R, Brady C, Perlmutter D, Garg SJ. The evolution of untreated acute syphilitic posterior placoid chorioretinitis captured by multimodal retinal imaging. Ophthalmic Surg Lasers Imaging Retina. 2014 Nov-Dec; 45(6):606-9.