"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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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Syphilis" by people in this website by year, and whether "Syphilis" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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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 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 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 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2023 | 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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Gulersen M, Lenchner E, Eliner Y, Grunebaum A, Johnson L, Chervenak FA, Bornstein E. Risk factors and adverse outcomes associated with syphilis infection during pregnancy. Am J Obstet Gynecol MFM. 2023 06; 5(6):100957.
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Jin A, McLarney BD, Hsu S, Lee JB. Granulomatous secondary syphilis: Another diagnostic pitfall for the dermatopathologist. J Cutan Pathol. 2023 Mar; 50(3):209-212.
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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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Vaccaro M, Marafioti I, Nunnari G, Pellican? GF, Vaccaro F, Trombetta CJ, Cannav? SP. When the eye does not see, the bone can grieve: An unusual presentation of secondary syphilis. Indian J Dermatol Venereol Leprol. 2020 Mar-Apr; 86(2):184-186.
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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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Jategaonkar A, Klimczak J, Agarwal J, Badhey A, Portnoy WM, Damiano A, Chai RL. Syphilis of the oropharynx: Case series of "The Great Masquerader". Am J Otolaryngol. 2019 Mar - Apr; 40(2):143-146.
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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.