Studies of the Transmissibility of Syphilis

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“…Pariser (1942) was unable to transmit syphilis to susceptible animals by seminal fluid obtained from men with early syphilis unless it had been contaminated with S. pallida while passing over an open lesion containing the organism. Stokes and his collaborators (1944) state that " it is not believed at the present time that syphilis can be transmitted to the ovum by semen of an infected male."…”