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Ocular Syphilis and Human Immunodeficiency Virus Coinfection Among Syphilis Patients in North Carolina, 2014–2016

Anna B. Cope, Victoria Mobley, Sara E. Oliver, Mara Larson, Nicole Dzialowy, Jason Maxwell, Jessica L. Rinsky, Thomas A. Peterman, Aaron T. Fleischauer, Erika Samoff

Sexually Transmitted Diseases · 2018 · 23 citations · 22 references

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Syphilis patients with HIV were nearly twice as likely to report OS symptoms as were patients without documented HIV. Human immunodeficiency virus-related immunodeficiency possibly increases the risk of OS development in co-infected patients.

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