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Dermatol Ther 2022 May 20:e15586. Epub 2022 May 20.

Dermatology Unit, IRCCS of Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna, via Massarenti 9, Bologna, Italy.

Introduction: Doxycilicine is the second-line treatment of choice for infectious syphilis when treatment with penicillin G is not feasible. To date, difficulties in the penicillin supply chain make it necessary to evaluate and resort to antibiotic therapies which are currently considered a second-line choice. Moreover, systematic studies comparing the two treatments in affected patients are still few, and many do not consider late and indeterminate latent infections. Read More

Am Fam Physician 2022 May;105(5):514-520

Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

Sexually transmitted infection (STI) rates are increasing for most nationally notifiable disease categories in the United States. The 2021 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention STI guidelines provide several updated, evidence-based testing and treatment recommendations. The recommended treatment for gonorrhea is ceftriaxone monotherapy given intramuscularly, with dosing based on the patient's body weight. Read More

Am Fam Physician 2022 May;105(5):Online

Atrium Health, Charlotte, NC, USA.

Environ Sci Pollut Res Int 2022 May 5. Epub 2022 May 5.

School of Health Management, Anhui Medical University, No 81 Meishan Road, Hefei, 230032, Anhui, China.

Although antibiotic exposure in the general population has been well documented by a biomonitoring approach, epidemiologic data on the relationships between urinary antibiotic burden in the elderly with blood pressure (BP) are still lacking. The current study revealed thirty-four antibiotics in urine specimens from 990 elderly patients in Lu'an City, China, with detection frequencies ranging from 0.2 to 35. Read More

Surv Ophthalmol 2022 May 2. Epub 2022 May 2.

All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi Delhi, India. Electronic address:

We read with great interest the review article on ocular syphilis published in your journal. 1 Furtado and Smith should be congratulated for the excellent article which has addressed the re-emergence of syphilis and highlighted the varied presentations of ocular syphilis. The article mentions vitritis associated with retinitis and chorioretinitis. Read More