Syphilis in 100 Married Couples

To uncover the possible factors of rapid increasing incidence of syphilis. The clinical data of 100 patients first diagnosed as syphilis and their spouses were analyzed. There were 65 couples (130 cases) both were infected with syphilis, accounting for 65％. Among these cases, 25 males first diagnosed, 15 of them were primary syphilis; and 40 females first diagnosed as syphilis, 32 of them were secondary syphilis. Among 65 syphilis couples, 48 spouses were simultaneously diagnosed as syphilis through contact tracing, but the other 17 spouses were not diagnosed as syphilis until 1~3 months later, and most of them were latent syphilis, accounting for 83.2％ (54/65). Chancre, which may be noticed by the patients themselves, was not so common in this group of patients, accounted for only 28.5％(37/130), and mainly in males. The infection rate of syphilis between spouses is high, especially latent syphilis, and chancre is low, which might be one of the factors for the rapid spreading of the disease