Clinical and epidemiological characteristics of individuals with very high rapid plasma reagin.

The objective of the study was to identify clinical and epidemiological characteristics of patients with infectious syphilis who presented with a high rapid plasma reagin (RPR) titre (≥1: 512) during the year of 2009 at the Miami Dade County Health Department (MDCHD) STD clinic. Potential cases were identified by a search in the electronic database. Among 519 individuals identified with reactive RPR, 190 individuals met criteria for infectious syphilis and 32 of them had at least one RPR titre of ≥1: 512. We found that the majority of individuals with high RPR were men who have sex with men (82%), from ethnic minorities (91%), and HIV infected (75%) but only 3 of them were on antiretroviral therapy. Overall, 50% of these patients with very high RPR titres were symptomatic, and the most common symptom was skin rash (93%). © The Author(s) 2013 Reprints and permissions: sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav.

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Jose G Castro, Maria L Alcaide, Isabella Rosa-Cunha. Clinical and epidemiological characteristics of individuals with very high rapid plasma reagin. International journal of STD & AIDS. 2014 Jul;25(8):593-5

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