Dowell also notes that there is a clinical and public health need for a rapid point of care test to reliably diagnose primary syphilis.
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After a sharp decrease in the rate of primary and secondary syphilis cases in the 90s, since the year 2000 the CDC has observed a steady increase in prevalence.
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Researchers were interested in whether gene expression appeared in the primary genital ulcers, or chancres, of syphilis.