All women should be screened for syphilis with a nontreponemal test (eg, rapid plasma reagin [RPR] or venereal disease research laboratory [VDRL] test) in the first trimester. Those at high risk ...

Neurosyphilis was diagnosed in 50 of 233 HIV-coinfected subjects (about 20%) on the basis of a reactive CSF VDRL in 16 patients, a CSF WBC count >20 cells/mm 3 in 22, and both of these ...