An all-time high of 25,986 sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) were diagnosed in Minnesota in 2015, according to a report released Monday by the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH). The number ...

Health officials are expressing concern over a recent rise in syphilis cases in Minnesota. In 2008, early syphilis cases were up 40 percent compared to 2007. Early syphilis-infection of less than ...

Sexually transmitted diseases in Minnesota rose again last year, with large increases in syphilis and gonorrhea. The 2016 Minnesota Department of Health’s annual report found that syphilis cases rose ...

In our clinic, quantitative serologic tests are taken routinely on all patients with early syphilis, but these have proved to be of the greatest value in the cases with negative dark-field lesions ...

Of infants born to mothers with primary or secondary syphilis, up to 50% will be premature, stillborn, or die in the neonatal period; further, most of these children are born with congenital ...