Amoxicillin and Ceftriaxone as Treatment Alternatives to Penicillin for Maternal Syphilis

There is no proven alternative to penicillin for treatment of maternal syphilis. We report 2 case-patients with maternal syphilis who were successfully treated without penicillin. We used amoxicillin and probenecid for the first case-patient and amoxicillin, probenecid, and ceftriaxone for the secon...

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Autores principales: Katanami, Yuichi, Hashimoto, Takehiro, Takaya, Saho, Yamamoto, Kei, Kutsuna, Satoshi, Takeshita, Nozomi, Hayakawa, Kayoko, Kanagawa, Shuzo, Ohmagari, Norio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2017
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Dispatch
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5403051/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28418316
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2305.161936
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Sumario:There is no proven alternative to penicillin for treatment of maternal syphilis. We report 2 case-patients with maternal syphilis who were successfully treated without penicillin. We used amoxicillin and probenecid for the first case-patient and amoxicillin, probenecid, and ceftriaxone for the second case-patient.

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