Amoxicillin and Ceftriaxone as Treatment Alternatives to Penicillin for Maternal Syphilis

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Katanami, Yuichi ; Hashimoto, Takehiro ; Takaya, Saho ; Yamamoto, Kei ; Kutsuna, Satoshi ; Takeshita, Nozomi ; Hayakawa, Kayoko ; Kanagawa, Shuzo ; Ohmagari, Norio
• Description:
  There is no proven alternative to penicillin for treatment of maternal syphilis. We report 2 case-patients with maternal syphilis who were successfully treated without penicillin. We used amoxicillin and probenecid for the first case-patient and amoxicillin, probenecid, and ceftriaxone for the second case-patient.
• Subjects:
  Adult Amoxicillin Anti-Bacterial Agents Ceftriaxone Drug Substitution Female Humans Infant, Newborn Penicillin G Benzathine Penicillins Pregnancy Pregnancy Complications, Infectious Pregnancy Outcome Syphilis Treatment Outcome Young Adult

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• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 23(5):827-829.
• Pubmed ID:
  28418316
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC5403051
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Volume:
  23
• Issue:
  5
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:fa76664584072b45ebba564f879cb05206469d4346f3c127ff731f565b63baa2
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/45641/cdc_45641_DS1.pdf
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