In the originally published version of this manuscript [Marra CM, Maxwell CL, Sahi SK, et al. Previous Syphilis Alters the Course of Subsequent Episodes of Syphilis. Clin Infect Dis 2020;71(5):1243–1247. https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciz943], the authors discovered a programming error in the dataset which has been corrected. These corrections did not change the overall conclusions of the study, but resulted in changes in the number of participants included in the analysis and thus in the numbers in the text, tables, and figures. The article online has been updated to the most current version.
The authors apologize for the error and conclude that the result that individuals with previous syphilis were significantly more likely to have latent syphilis was reduced to a trend when the rate of syphilis testing was taken into account. That more frequent tests would identify more individuals with asymptomatic syphilis is not surprising due to the goal of frequent serological screening.