Treponema pallidum, a spiral-shaped bacterium, is responsible for the sexually transmitted
disease syphilis. Millions of people in less developed countries are getting the disease …

A new multistage deterministic model for the transmission dynamics of syphilis is designed
and used to qualitatively assess the role of loss of transitory immunity in the transmission …

The work presented in this thesis was carried out at the Department of Infectious Diseases,
Rigshospitalet and at STI Research and Development at the Department of Microbiology …

Syphilis is caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum subspecies pallidum, and is a
sexually transmitted disease with multiple stages. A model of transmission of syphilis in an …

Background Syphilis is re-emerging globally in general and HIV-infected populations, and
repeated syphilis episodes may play a central role in syphilis transmission among core …

Objectives Syphilis outbreaks in urban men who have sex with men (MSM) are an ongoing
public health challenge in many high-income countries, despite intensification of efforts to …

The CDC launched the National Plan to Eliminate Syphilis from the USA in October 1999. In
order to reach this goal, a good understanding of the transmission dynamics of the disease …

Host immunity and demographics (the recruitment of susceptibles via birthrate) have been
demonstrated to be a key determinant of the periodicity of measles, pertussis and dengue …

Background The current syphilis epidemic in the United States is concentrated in gay,
bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (MSM), but substantial heterosexual …

A new multi-stage deterministic model for the transmission dynamics of syphilis, which
incorporates disease transmission by individuals in the early latent stage of syphilis infection …