RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Early malignant syphilis observed during infection and reinfection in the same patient.
JF The British Journal of Venereal Diseases
JO Br J Vener Dis
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd
SP 278
OP 282
DO 10.1136/sti.54.4.278
VO 54
IS 4
A1 Lejman, K
A1 Starzycki, Z
YR 1978
UL http://sti.bmj.com/content/54/4/278.abstract
AB Malignant syphilitic infections occurring in the same woman at an interval of 38 months is reported. The first infection was diagnosed as secondary papulopustular and ecthymatous syphilis. The reinfection was more severe, taking the form of secondary ulcerative syphilis with fever, general deterioration, and loss of weight. Numerous Treponema pallidum were present in the serum expressed from the papulopustular lesions during the first infection, but they were absent from the secretion expressed from the margins of the ulcerative symphilides during the reinfection. Many treponemes were present in the plasma cell infiltrates in histopathological sections of the biopsy specimens taken from the margin of the ulcers.