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Alice Lehman1, Pamela Layton2, Susan Mishkulin2
1From the Division of Infectious Diseases and International Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
Abstract:
Doxycycline postexposure prophylaxis (doxyPEP) may affect RPR titers. We describe syphilis diagnosis following doxyPEP roll-out. Syphilis diagnoses decreased (3.4%-1.5%) among persons prescribed doxyPEP. Diagnosis without laboratory confirmation occurred frequently in the pre- and post-doxyPEP periods. Median RPR (1:16) did not change; however, it was 4-fold lower (1:4) among persons prescribed doxyPEP.
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