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Sex Transm Infect 2005;81:133-134 doi:10.1136/sti.2004.011668
  • Case report

Early syphilis presenting as a painful polyradiculopathy in an HIV positive individual

  1. A Winston1,2,
  2. D Marriott2,
  3. B Brew2,3
  1. 1Department of Immunology, St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia
  2. 2Department of Infectious Diseases, St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia
  3. 3Department of Neurology, St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia
  1. Correspondence to:
 Alan Winston
 National Centre for HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research, University of New South Wales, 376 Victoria Street, Darlinghurst, NSW 2010, Australia; Awinstonnchecr.unsw.edu.au
  • Accepted 29 July 2004

Abstract

Neurosyphilis and neurological complications from syphilis may be commoner in HIV disease. With outbreaks of early syphilis in HIV positive individuals being observed over recent years, rare neurological manifestations of secondary syphilis will be observed more commonly. We describe a case of an HIV positive individual whose first presenting feature of early syphilis was a polyradiculopathy.

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