A 44-year-old man who was human immunodeficiency virus positive presented with a generalized pruritic eruption of 1 week’s duration. He denied prodromal symptoms such as fever, chills, headache, or meningismus. The current viral load was undetectable. A rapid plasma reagin test conducted 3 months prior to the cutaneous eruption was negative. Physical examination revealed multiple erythematous papules and thin scaly plaques involving the face, trunk, and proximal extremities, with sparing of the palms and soles. There were no genital, oral, or ocular lesions.
Syphilis is reemerging, as evidenced by the increased incidence of primary and secondary syphilis cases. When syphilis presents as unusual skin...
Syphilis is caused by Treponema pallidum and clinically presents with variable mucocutaneous features. The clinical features of secondary syphilis...
As an increasing number of patients undergo successful solid organ transplantation, immunocompromised patients are encountered more commonly in...
