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Occurrence, risk factors, diagnosis and treatment of syphilis in the prospective observational Swiss HIV Cohort Study

Published inAIDS, vol. 24, no. 12, p. 1907-1916
Publication date2010
Abstract

Annual syphilis testing was reintroduced in the Swiss HIV Cohort Study (SHCS) in 2004. We prospectively studied occurrence, risk factors, clinical manifestations, diagnostic approaches and treatment of syphilis.

Keywords
  • AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections/diagnosis/drug therapy/epidemiology
  • Adult
  • Female
  • HIV Infections/complications/drug therapy/epidemiology
  • Homosexuality
  • Male/statistics & numerical data
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Mass Screening
  • Middle Aged
  • Prospective Studies
  • Risk Factors
  • Switzerland/epidemiology
  • Syphilis/diagnosis/drug therapy/epidemiology
  • Treponema pallidum/isolation & purification
  • United States/epidemiology
  • Unsafe Sex
Funding
  • Swiss National Science Foundation - 108787
Citation (ISO format)
THURNHEER, Maria Christine et al. Occurrence, risk factors, diagnosis and treatment of syphilis in the prospective observational Swiss HIV Cohort Study. In: AIDS, 2010, vol. 24, n° 12, p. 1907–1916. doi: 10.1097/QAD.0b013e32833bfe21
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