. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Dec 1.

Published in final edited form as: Sex Transm Dis. 2021 Dec 1;48(12):915–918. doi: 10.1097/OLQ.0000000000001476

Table 2.

Detection of tp0548 DNA in oropharyngeal swabs, whole blood and lesion exudate swabs from cases according to syphilis stage

Stage^a	Sample Source
	Oropharyngeal swab, n=122	Whole blood, n=119	Lesion exudate swab, n=46
Primary	4/29 (13.8)	8/28 (28.6)	19/24 (79.2)
Secondary	22/55 (40.0)	19/53 (35.8)	11/22 (50.0)
Early latent	6/26 (23.1)	4/26 (15.4)	--
Late latent	1/11 (9.1)	1/11 (9.1)	--
Sexual contact with an individual with infectious syphilis in the last 90 days	0/1 (0.0)	0/1 (0.0)	--

^a.

Stage was missing in one participant.