TY - JOUR T1 - Cerebrospinal fluid HIV viral load may be detectable, despite serum viral load being undetectable, in patients diagnosed with syphilis JF - Sexually Transmitted Infections JO - Sex Transm Infect SP - 480 LP - 480 DO - 10.1136/sextrans-2012-050549 VL - 88 IS - 7 AU - Eavan Gabrielle Muldoon AU - Suzie Coughlan AU - Fiona Mulcahy Y1 - 2012/11/01 UR - http://sti.bmj.com/content/88/7/480.abstract N2 - With an increasing proportion of male patients co-infected with syphilis and HIV, the management of these patients has become more relevant. HIV and syphilis both enter the central nervous system early in the course of infection, and have been shown to be present at all stages of the disease. Syphilis is reported to increase the serum HIV viral load (VL) in HIV co-infected patients;1 higher CSF HIV VLs … ER -