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SUBMITTER: Pratas AC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5782877 | biostudies-other | 2018 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Pratas Ana Catarina AC Goldschmidt Pablo P Lebeaux David D Aguilar Claire C Ermak Natalia N Benesty Jonathan J Charlier Caroline C Benveniste Edgar E Merabet Lilia L Sedira Neila N Hope-Rapp Emilie E Chaumeil Christine C Bodaghi Bahram B Héron Emmanuel E Sahel José-Alain JA Lortholary Olivier O Errera Marie-Hélène MH
Emerging infectious diseases 20180201 2
We describe the frequency, demographic and clinical features, and visual outcomes of ocular syphilis infections observed during 2012-2015 at a tertiary reference center in Paris, France. Twenty-one cases (29 eyes) were identified. The occurrence of ocular syphilis increased from 1 case in 2012 to 5 cases in 2013, 6 cases in 2014, and 9 cases in 2015 (2.22-25.21/1,000 individual patients/year for the period). Among case-patients, an annual 20%-33% were co-infected with HIV. Seventy-six percent of ...[more]