Syphilis: then and now

Katarzyna Plagens-Rotman; Grażyna Jarząbek-Bielecka; Piotr Merks; Witold Kędzia; Magdalena Czarnecka-Operacz

doi:10.5114/ada.2021.108930

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Syphilis: then and now

Katarzyna Plagens-Rotman

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,

Grażyna Jarząbek-Bielecka

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,

Piotr Merks

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,

Witold Kędzia

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,

Magdalena Czarnecka-Operacz

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Hipolit Cegielski State Higher School of Vocational Education, Gniezno, Poland

Division of Developmental Gynaecology and Sexology, Department of Perinatology and Gynaecology, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland

Faculty of Medicine, Collegium Medicum, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyñski University, Warsaw, Poland

Department of Dermatology, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland

Adv Dermatol Allergol 2021; XXXVIII (4): 550–554

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5114/ada.2021.108930

Online publish date: 2021/09/17

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Getting to know the history of syphilis should begin with an attempt to establish the original source of its spread throughout the world. The dispute about the origin of syphilis, a sexually transmitted infection caused by Treponema pallidum (subspecies pallidum), had not been resolved even as late as in the twenty-first century, and to this day the supporters and opponents of the thesis that syphilis was brought to Europe by Christopher Columbus’ sailors have been fighting without solid and sustainable foundations. The French named syphilis “the Neapolitan disease”, while the Italians called it “the French disease”.

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Syphilis: then and now

Katarzyna Plagens-Rotman 1 , Grażyna Jarząbek-Bielecka 2 , Piotr Merks 3 , Witold Kędzia 1 , Magdalena Czarnecka-Operacz 4

syphilis, sexually transmitted infection, history

Katarzyna Plagens-Rotman

¹

,

Grażyna Jarząbek-Bielecka

²

,

Piotr Merks

³

,

Witold Kędzia

¹

,

Magdalena Czarnecka-Operacz

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