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Early syphilis presenting as a painful polyradiculopathy in an HIV positive individual.

Winston A, Marriott D, Brew B

National Centre for HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research, University of New South Wales, 376 Victoria Street, Darlinghurst, NSW 2010, Australia. Awinston@nchecr.unsw.edu.au

Neurosyphilis and neurological complications from syphilis may be commoner in HIV disease. With outbreaks of early syphilis in HIV positive individuals being observed over recent years, rare neurological manifestations of secondary syphilis will be observed more commonly. We describe a case of an HIV positive individual whose first presenting feature of early syphilis was a polyradiculopathy.

Published 31 March 2005 in Sex Transm Infect, 81(2): 133-4.
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