"Aortic Regurgitation in the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis"
Journal article
By: Joseph G. Caldwell
Date: 1973
Source: Caldwell, Joseph G., et al. "Aortic Regurgitation in the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis." Journal of Chronic Diseases 26, 1973, 187–194.
About the Author: Joseph G. Caldwell, who worked for the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta when he and his colleagues published this article, received an MD from the University of Kentucky in 1970, specializing in endocrinology. In the early 2000s he worked in private practice as a physician.
Introduction
The spirochete Treponema pallidum causes syphilis. (A spirochete is a class of bacteria.) The spirochete incubates in the body as long as three weeks, when it may cause lesions filled with clear fluid on genitals, the anus, fingers, lips, tongue, nipples, tonsils, and eyelids. The lesions cause no pain and disappear in three to six weeks. Their...
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