Amoxicillin and Ceftriaxone as Treatment Alternatives to Penicillin for Maternal Syphilis

Abstract

There is no proven alternative to penicillin for treatment of maternal syphilis. We report 2 case-patients with maternal syphilis who were successfully treated without penicillin. We used amoxicillin and probenecid for the first case-patient and amoxicillin, probenecid, and ceftriaxone for the second case-patient.

Keywords

• syphilis
• maternal syphilis
• congenital
• penicillin
• amoxicillin
• ceftriaxone