Volume 16, Number 1—January 2010
Dispatch
Reemergence of Syphilis in Martinique, 2001–2008
André Cabié
, Bruno Rollin, Sandrine Pierre-François, Sylvie Abel, Nicole Desbois, Pascale Richard, Patrick Hochedez, Raphaëlle Théodose, Danielle Quist, Raymond Hélénon, Christian Derancourt, Annick Cavelier, and Bernard Liautaud
, Bruno Rollin, Sandrine Pierre-François, Sylvie Abel, Nicole Desbois, Pascale Richard, Patrick Hochedez, Raphaëlle Théodose, Danielle Quist, Raymond Hélénon, Christian Derancourt, Annick Cavelier, and Bernard LiautaudTable 1
Characteristics of 55 patients with syphilis, University Hospital, Fort-de-France, Martinique, January 1, 2001– March 31, 2008*
| Characteristic | Syphilis stage |
Total | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Primary |
Secondary |
Early latent |
|||||||
| HIV-positive | HIV-negative | HIV-positive | HIV-negative | HIV-positive | HIV-negative | ||||
| Total no. patients |
1 |
11 |
24 |
9 |
4 |
6 |
55 |
||
| Sex | |||||||||
| M | 1 | 9 | 17 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 37 | ||
| F |
0 |
2 |
7 |
3 |
0 |
6 |
18 |
||
| MSM | 1 | 1 | 13 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 21 | ||
| Crack cocaine use | 0 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 23 | ||
| Precarious conditions |
0 |
5 |
6 |
5 |
0 |
1 |
17 |
||
| HIV diagnosis | |||||||||
| Before syphilis | 1 | ND | 18 | ND | 3 | ND | 22 | ||
| Concomitant with syphilis |
0 |
ND |
6 |
ND |
1 |
ND |
7 |
||
| Darkfield microscopy, no. positive/total | 0/1 | 2/5 | 11/13 | 4/4 | ND | ND | 17/23 | ||
| Modal RPR titer | 16 | 8 | 128 | 16 | 32 | 32 | 32 | ||
*MSM, men who have sex with men; precarious conditions, >1 of the following: homelessness, lack of welfare, being followed-up in a psychiatry unit, mental deficiency, having paid sex, incarceration in correctional facility >2× in the past 5 years; ND, not determined; RPR, rapid plasma reagin.
