Volume : IV, Issue : V, May - 2014

Seroprevalence of Syphilis in HIV positive Patients

Sureena Chauhan, Seema Srivastava, Geeta Parihar

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Syphilis is a sexually transmitted disease caused by a type of bacteria known as Spirochete, which occurs only in human beings. It is extremely small and can live almost anywhere in the body. The incidence of syphilis is rising all over the world partly due to the increased transmission in HIV and other high risk groups such as sex among the same sex. Syphilis itself facilitates HIV infection in several ways. AIDS/HIV caused by retro virus also has one of the modes of transmission by sexual contact. The present study aims to find out manifestation of syphilis in the context of HIV infected patients. Secondly to find out the age group and sex more prone to syphilis–HIV co infection as untreated syphilis can also cause major birth defects if the pregnant woman suffering from the disease and has not been effectively treated for the studies than the females and between the age group 26–35 years i.e. the reproductively active age group.  

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Sureena Chauhan, Seema Srivastava, Geeta Parihar Seroprevalence of Syphilis in HIV positive Patients Indian Journal of Applied Research, Volume.4, Issue.5, May-2014

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