DEAR DR. ROACH: In October 2018 I was treated for syphilis, and had a VDRL titer of 1:128. A few months later, the titer was 1:8, but has stayed at 1:8 since then. Why hasn’t it gone down? — Y ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: In October 2018 I was treated for syphilis, and had a VDRL titer of 1:128. A few months later, the titer was 1:8, but has stayed at 1:8 since then. Why hasn’t it gone down?– Y ...

Expert Rev Anti Infect Ther. 2013;11(8):839-843. This group of serofast patients with unchanging serologic test titers are a source of anxiety and concern for clinicians, who are often uncertain ...

Congenital syphilis, first described by Gaspar Torella in 1497, results primarily from the transplacental passage of Treponema pallidum and continues to cause major negative consequences worldwide ...

Researchers conducted a retrospective cohort study of ocular syphilis cases diagnosed from 2017 to 2023 in Los Angeles, analyzing 32 patients with a median age of 46 years (78% men).