[8] Also, in resource poor settings, access to safe injection equipment ... Long-acting penicillin remains the recommended treatment for early syphilis, and in the case of pregnant women, the ...

Penicillin G sodium 5million Units/mL ... staphylococci): minimum of 5million Units per day. Syphilis: dosage and duration determined by age of patient and stage of disease.

In some cases, it can even result in death. Regardless of its progression, syphilis is easily treated with penicillin injections. We’ve found the outbreak in Stark and Wayne counties isn’t ...

A regional collaboration called the Stop Syphilis Coalition is launching a public awareness campaign this month to educate residents and providers on risk factors, symptoms and screening ...

NORFOLK, Va. — Local health leaders are raising awareness and looking into ways to stop the rise in syphilis cases across ...

A recent study offers a promising sign in syphilis incidence, a preventable and curable STI that has been surging across the ...

The preferred treatment for syphilis is an injection of a long-acting form of the antibiotic penicillin, called Bicillin L-A, which has been in shortage for a year. Because the injections are the ...

If primary syphilis and gonorrhea could be cured simultaneously in three days with only one injection (45¢ worth of penicillin), it would be big medical news indeed. It was reported last week ...

Reported cases of three nationally notifiable STIs – chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis – were ... a single dose of the antibiotic ceftriaxone as an injection paired with orally taking the ...

Treatment decisions may be further complicated in patients who are allergic to penicillin or infected with HIV. The pathogenesis of congenital syphilis is not completely understood, but placental ...

Treating syphilis is also easy. “For most cases, it’s one shot, one injection of penicillin,” Girois said. The increase, she said, is among the senior population, and, alarmingly, ...