Open AccessAzithromycin failures in the treatment of syphilis in the United States
Author(s) -
Ian Simms,
Patrick French,
Kevin Fenton
Publication year - 2004
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 9999-1233
DOI - 10.2807/esw.08.14.02432-en
Subject(s) - syphilis , azithromycin , outbreak , incidence (geometry) , early syphilis , men who have sex with men , medicine , geography , virology , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , antibiotics , biology , physics , optics , microbiology and biotechnology
Since the late 1990s there has been a dramatic change in the incidence of infectious syphilis in many western industrialised countries and outbreaks have been seen in major cities in Europe, North America and Australia