Malignant Syphilis with Ocular Involvement and Organism‐Depleted Lesions | Zendy

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Malignant Syphilis with Ocular Involvement and Organism‐Depleted Lesions

Author(s) -

Marc Pleimes,

Wolfgang Hartschuh,

Heinz Kutzner,

Alexander Enk,

Martin Hartmann

Publication year - 2008

Publication title -

clinical infectious diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44

H-Index - 336

eISSN - 1537-6591

pISSN - 1058-4838

DOI - 10.1086/594127

Subject(s) - medicine , syphilis , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , dermatology , pathology , immunology

Diagnosis and treatment of syphilis are challenging because of the condition's diverse clinical symptoms, histopathological variance, and the lack of definite tests for treatment follow-up. We report a case of secondary pustular-ulcerative malignant syphilis with ocular involvement in a human immunodeficiency virus-infected patient. It was striking to find that ulcerative lesions can be highly organism depleted.

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