Acquired macrolide-resistant Treponema pallidum after a human bite

Sex Transm Dis. 2014 Aug;41(8):493-5. doi: 10.1097/OLQ.0000000000000156.

Abstract

Syphilis is a systemic disease caused by the spirochete Treponema pallidum that is usually acquired through sexual exposure.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Anti-Bacterial Agents / therapeutic use*
  • Bites, Human / complications
  • Bites, Human / microbiology*
  • Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial
  • Humans
  • Injections, Intramuscular
  • Macrolides / therapeutic use
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Penicillin G Benzathine / therapeutic use*
  • Syphilis / drug therapy*
  • Syphilis / etiology*
  • Treatment Outcome
  • Treponema pallidum / drug effects
  • Treponema pallidum / isolation & purification*

Substances

  • Anti-Bacterial Agents
  • Macrolides
  • Penicillin G Benzathine