STD – Brazilian Journal of Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Official body of the Brazilian Society of STD, it was created on June 7th, 1989. First — and still the only — open scientific journal on the Internet in the area of STD in Latin America.
Official body of the Brazilian Society of STD, it was created on June 7th, 1989. First — and still the only — open scientific journal on the Internet in the area of STD in Latin America.
Syphilis Handout sold to medical students in order to raise funds for the Graduation Committee of the 1st Class of 1981 at the Teresópolis Medical School, Rio de Janeiro, Serra dos Órgãos Educational Foundation. This action is possibly unique in Brazil. Edition of June 13th, 1980. Author: Mauro Romero Leal Passos. Collaborators: Renato de Souza …
Karl Landsteiner was born on June 14th, 1868 in Baden bei Wien, Austria-Hungary. Landsteiner introduced dark field microscopy for the diagnosis of primary syphilis and worked with several associates on the characteristics of Treponema pallidum. They were able to describe the mechanism that resulted in Wassermann’s reaction. Together with Ernest Finger and others, he found …
Walter Belda was born on June 20 in Mogi das Cruzes, São Paulo. Dermatologist and Sanitary Physician, professor at the Department of Epidemiology of the Faculty of Public Health of Universidade de São Paulo and responsible for the Area of Sanitary Dermatology. He was a leader, scholar by vocation, bearer of an enviable scientific hierarchy. …
Karl Herxheimer was born on June 26th, 1861. He was a German Jewish dermatologist born in Wiesbaden. The Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction, an inflammatory response that he noticed after treatment for syphilis, was partially named after him. In some cases, patients with roseola (reddish or coppery/copper colored spots on the skin) due to syphilis, after the first …
Altino Catapan was born in Cittadella, Padova, Veneto, Italy on July 4th, 1912. He graduated from the University of Padova in 1935. He went to Africa in 1937, as a dermatologist, to work in the Italian colonies of Ethiopia, Abisinia, and Eritrea. In 1938, he became a prisoner in an English concentration camp, and was …