Treatment of Primary and Secondary Syphilis

27 June 1980

journal article
research article
Published by American Medical Association (AMA)

Vol. 243 (24) , 2500-2502
https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1980.03300500026022

Abstract

One hundred thirty-eight patients with primary syphilis and 161 patients with secondary syphilis were treated with penicillin G benzathine, 2.4 million units given intramuscularly weekly for two weeks, for a total of 4.8 million units. All 138 patients with primary syphilis had a rapid resolution of their lesions, and all became seronegative within one year. Similarly, the 161 patients with secondary syphilis were cured clinically, and all achieved seronegativity within 24 months. (JAMA243:2500-2502, 1980)

Keywords

SECONDARY SYPHILIS
TREATMENT
INTRAMUSCULARLY
RESOLUTION
BENZATHINE
JAMA
WEEKLY
LESIONS

This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:

Acquired Syphilis in Three Patients with Congenital Syphilis
New England Journal of Medicine, 1974