Front Med (Lausanne) 2022 13;9:894841. Epub 2022 May 13.
Department of Clinical Prevention and Control of STD, Institute of Dermatology, Chinese Academy of Medical Science and Peking Union Medical College, National Center for STD Control, China Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Nanjing, China.
Considered the increased threaten of neurosyphilis in China, a review on cases reported in the literature to describe the clinical epidemiological characteristics of neurosyphilis cases, may be beneficial to the early detection and management strategies of neurosyphilis for clinicians. We searched the literature on Chinese neurosyphilis cases published from January 1, 2009 to December 31, 2021, described their clinical epidemiological characteristics and calculated the prevalence of neurosyphilis amongst other associated diseases, according to the individual study criteria. A total of 284 studies including 7,486 neurosyphilis cases were included. Read More