Case series of syphilis and HIV co-infections

Syphilis and HIV co-infection are indeed dangerous combinations. The present communication describes three different cases of syphilis and HIV co-infection in young men. The first case is a 25-year-old medical graduate with a primary and secondary syphilis lesions at time of presentation. The second...

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Autores principales: Abdul Wahab, Asrul, Rahman, M.M., Mohammad, Marlyn, Hussin, Salasawati
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Professional Medical Publicaitons 2013
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Clinical Case Series
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3809308/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24353643
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author Abdul Wahab, Asrul
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description Syphilis and HIV co-infection are indeed dangerous combinations. The present communication describes three different cases of syphilis and HIV co-infection in young men. The first case is a 25-year-old medical graduate with a primary and secondary syphilis lesions at time of presentation. The second case is a 24-year-old government officer with right eye posterior uveitis where the serology tests for syphilis were reactive. His HIV tests were also positive. The final case is a 25-year-old homosexual who was admitted to the medical ward because of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection. The HIV and syphilis serology tests were noted to be positive.
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spelling pubmed-38093082013-12-18 Case series of syphilis and HIV co-infections Abdul Wahab, Asrul Rahman, M.M. Mohammad, Marlyn Hussin, Salasawati Pak J Med Sci Clinical Case Series Syphilis and HIV co-infection are indeed dangerous combinations. The present communication describes three different cases of syphilis and HIV co-infection in young men. The first case is a 25-year-old medical graduate with a primary and secondary syphilis lesions at time of presentation. The second case is a 24-year-old government officer with right eye posterior uveitis where the serology tests for syphilis were reactive. His HIV tests were also positive. The final case is a 25-year-old homosexual who was admitted to the medical ward because of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection. The HIV and syphilis serology tests were noted to be positive. Professional Medical Publicaitons 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC3809308/ /pubmed/24353643 Text en This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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