title: UK national guidelines on the management of syphilis 2015.
abstract: These guidelines are an update for 2015 of the 2008 UK guidelines for the management of syphilis. The writing group have piloted the new BASHH guideline methodology, notably using the GRADE system for assessing evidence and making recommendations. We have made significant changes to the recommendations for screening infants born to mothers with positive syphilis serology and to facilitate accurate and timely communication between the teams caring for mother and baby we have developed a birth plan. Procaine penicillin is now an alternative, not preferred treatment, for all stages of syphilis except neurosyphilis, but the length of treatment for this is shortened. Other changes are summarised at the start of the guideline.
authors.affiliation: Manchester Centre for Sexual Health, Manchester, UK margaret.kingston@cmft.nhs.uk.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kingston
authors.affiliation: Mortimer Market Centre, London, UK.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: French
authors.affiliation: North Manchester General Hospital, Manchester, UK.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Higgins
authors.affiliation: Manchester Centre for Sexual Health, Manchester, UK.
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: McQuillan
authors.affiliation: Manchester Centre for Sexual Health, Manchester, UK.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sukthankar
authors.affiliation: Manchester Centre for Sexual Health, Manchester, UK.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Stott
authors.affiliation: Manchester Centre for Sexual Health, Manchester, UK.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: McBrien
authors.affiliation: Jefferiss Wing Centre for Sexual Health, Imperial College Health Care NHS Trust, London, UK.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Tipple
authors.affiliation: The Public Health England/Clinical Virology Laboratory, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester, UK.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Turner
authors.affiliation: CEG Editor.
authors.forename: A K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Sullivan
authors.affiliation: Clinical Effectiveness Group, British Association for Sexual Health and HIV, Macclesfield, UK.
authors.forename: Keith
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Radcliffe
authors.affiliation: Clinical Effectiveness Group, British Association for Sexual Health and HIV, Macclesfield, UK.
authors.forename: Darren
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Cousins
authors.affiliation: Clinical Effectiveness Group, British Association for Sexual Health and HIV, Macclesfield, UK.
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: FitzGerald
authors.affiliation: Clinical Effectiveness Group, British Association for Sexual Health and HIV, Macclesfield, UK.
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fisher
authors.affiliation: Clinical Effectiveness Group, British Association for Sexual Health and HIV, Macclesfield, UK.
authors.forename: Deepa
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Grover
authors.affiliation: Clinical Effectiveness Group, British Association for Sexual Health and HIV, Macclesfield, UK.
authors.forename: Stephen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Higgins
authors.affiliation: Clinical Effectiveness Group, British Association for Sexual Health and HIV, Macclesfield, UK.
authors.forename: Margaret
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kingston
authors.affiliation: Clinical Effectiveness Group, British Association for Sexual Health and HIV, Macclesfield, UK.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rayment
authors.affiliation: Clinical Effectiveness Group, British Association for Sexual Health and HIV, Macclesfield, UK.
authors.forename: Ann
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sullivan
mesh_terms: D019468:Disease Management; D006801:Humans; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D013587:Syphilis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy; D013588:Syphilis Serodiagnosis; D014210:Treponema pallidum / Q000276:immunology; D006113:United Kingdom
keywords: Syphilis; Treponema pallidum; diagnosis; guideline; sexually transmitted infections; treatment