Clinical presentation
An HIV-positive patient with syphilis
coinfection may have a similar course
of syphilitic disease as a non-HIV-infected patient.
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Some minor differ-ences have been noted (HIV-infected
patients may present with more than
one chancre and have larger, deeper
lesions, develop ocular syphilis, expe-rience a more rapid progression to
tertiary syphilis with lesser effi cacy
of standard therapy), however, large