TESTING Ask your doctor or sexual health clinic for a test if you think you’ve been exposed to syphilis. There is a period of 2-3 weeks before an infection can be detected on a test, though this period can be up to 3 months. Rapid syphilis tests are also...
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TESTING Ask your doctor or sexual health clinic for a test if you think you’ve been exposed to syphilis. There is a period of 2-3 weeks before an infection can be detected on a test, though this period can be up to 3 months. Rapid syphilis tests are also available from QPP’s RAPID clinics in Brisbane and the Gold Coast – results are provided in 15 minutes and no appointment is required (www.rapid.org.au). Rapid syphilis tests are only reliable if you have never had a previous syphilis infection (because antibodies can persist for life), so if you have had syphilis before you are best to test for a current new infection at your medical or sexual health clinic. If you are having any sex get a yearly test, and whenever you change sex partners. If you are having any condom-less sex, or sex with multiple partners (>10 within 6 months) or group sex, or using recreational drugs during sex – get a test every 3 months (4 times a year). If you are HIV-positive, consider the above testing recomme
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