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An Exploratory Study of Host Plasma Proteomic Signatures that Distinguish Active Syphilis in Adults

2026-03-05 infectious diseases Title + abstract only
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Syphilis remains a major public health concern. However, current serologic assays are limited in their ability to distinguish active from previously treated disease. We applied tandem mass tag-based quantitative proteomics to plasma from 10 adults with active syphilis and 10 age- and gender-matched non-diseased controls. We identified 54 differentially regulated proteins (36 upregulated, 18 downregulated). Those proteins map to immune and inflammatory responses, acute-phase signaling, coagulatio...

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