Persistence of Treponema pallidum IgM antibodies in serum: What is their meaning?

Neurosyphilis Syphilis Treponema pallidum IgM antibodies

Journal

Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease
ISSN: 1879-0070
Titre abrégé: Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 8305899

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
07 May 2024
Historique:
received: 27 02 2024
revised: 03 05 2024
accepted: 05 05 2024
medline: 11 5 2024
pubmed: 11 5 2024
entrez: 10 5 2024
Statut: aheadofprint

Résumé

We studied the detection of Treponema pallidum (TP)-IgM antibodies in the serum of 69 patients treated for syphilis. The persistence of TP-IgM antibodies in serum for more than 3 years was the only clue to suspect an active infection and, therefore, to investigate a central nervous system involvement.

Identifiants

pubmed: 38728874
pii: S0732-8893(24)00170-6
doi: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2024.116341
pii:
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

116341

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2024. Published by Elsevier Inc.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

Auteurs

Giulia Ciccarese (G)

Section of Dermatology, Department of Medical and surgical sciences, University of Foggia, Viale Pinto 1, 71122 Foggia, Italy. Electronic address: giulia.ciccarese@unifg.it.

Elisabetta Capello (E)

Clinica Neurologica, IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Largo Rosanna Benzi, Genoa, Italy.

Serena Varesano (S)

Hygiene Section, IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Largo Rosanna Benzi 10, 16132 Genoa, Italy.

Lorenzo Giacani (L)

Department of Medicine, Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.

Niccolò Capurro (N)

Section of Dermatology, Department of Health Sciences, University of Genoa, IRCCS - Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Genoa, Italy.

Francesco Drago (F)

Section of Dermatology, Department of Health Sciences, University of Genoa, IRCCS - Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Genoa, Italy.

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