Hedendaagse syfilis epidemieën: inspanningen om de diagnostiek van syfilis te verbeteren Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde
Syphilis, a multistage curable chronic disease caused by the spirochete Treponema pallidum ssp. pallidum (T. pallidum), has re-emerged during the last 15 years as a major global public health problem, with an estimated 6 million new infections each year worldwide. Men who have sex with men (MSM) populations have been particularly affected, accounting for more than 90% of incident syphilis infections in Belgium, whereby half of these are ...