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The drug is the go-to treatment for syphilis and the only one recommended for pregnant people. But a shortage of the injectable drug has prompted some public health agencies to ration it.

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Delabeling patients with syphilis who believe they are allergic to penicillin is safe, according to a new study.

Methods: We retrospectively reviewed penicillin allergy labeled patients with confirmed syphilis referred to our drug allergy clinic for assessment and delabeling from January 2014 to January 2024.

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A pregnant female patient with penicillin desensitization had her pregnancy complicated by congenital syphilis. Among the 12 patients, all were delabeled of their penicillin allergy.

In our clinic, quantitative serologic tests are taken routinely on all patients with early syphilis, but these have proved to be of the greatest value in the cases with negative dark-field lesions ...

More than two-thirds of these patients (68%) lacked typical syphilis symptoms, like a rash or chancre sore, that might tip doctors off to the infection.