Table 5.

Changes in Serum CRP Levels Before and After Benzathine Penicillin Treatment Among Syphilitic Patients with and without the JHR

	No JHR Before Treatment N=17	No JHR After Treatment N=17	Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test (p-value) 95% CI	JHR Before Treatment N=12	JHR After Treatment N=12	Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test (p-value) 95% CI
CRP
Median	3488.6	4328	0.7467	16,262	16,159	0.3013
IQR	924–16,064	482–13,328	−851 ~ 817	12,032–26,150	9352–24,561	−3162 ~ 1341

Abbreviations: CRP, C-reactive protein; JHR, Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction; IQR, interquartile range.