梅毒研究近况

Research Situation of Syphilis

近年来,梅毒在中国发病率居高不下。表现出如下特点:由沿海开放城市向内陆城市再向农村地区蔓延的地区趋势,不同地区梅毒发病率和增长速度相差较大;发病人数中以中、小学文化程度为主,工人、无业、个体者为多;发病年龄主要集中在20～40岁;随着梅毒的流行,男女病例数的比例越来越小,接近1;传染来源以非婚性接触为主。梅毒的实验室检测方法主要有病原体检查、抗体测定、酶联免疫吸附试验及聚合酶链反应等。这些方法对于不同时期梅毒的诊断具有极重要的价值。

The incidence of syphilis has always been high in the last few years in China.The characteristics are these as follows：syphilis spreads from coastal opening cities to inland urban aera, then to rural area, and there was a great difference in incidence and growth of syphilis among different areas. The majority of the patients were those with culture of middle scheel and elementaty school, of whom most are worker, people without career and individusl businessman.Age of onset are mainly between 20 - 40 years old. With the popular of syphilis,ratio between female and male is becoming less and less, which is about 1. The most popular way of transmission was through unmarried sexual contact. The major technologies of syphilis lab test includes pathogen test, antibody test, Enzyme linked immunoadsorbent assay and PCR,which are very important in the diagnosis of syphilis in different phases.