Clinical Trial: Treponemal Shedding, Load, and Viability, in Women and Men-who-have-sex-with-women-only With Early Infectious Syphilis: Implications for Transmission

U.S., Dec. 24 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT07300254) titled 'Treponemal Shedding, Load, and Viability, in Women and Men-who-have-sex-with-women-only With Early Infectious Syphilis: Implications for Transmission' on Dec. 10.

Brief Summary: How syphilis is transmitted between sexual partners is unclear. Asymptomatic detection i.e. detection of syphilis bacteria (Tp) from anatomical sites without lesions, in patients with syphilis infection, suggests that asymptomatic transmission from these sites may play a role. However, no existing studies have established whether the syphilis bacteria (Tp) detected was viable. This means it is not known if the bacteria at this anatomical site is alive and th...