By looking at your test results, symptoms and medical history, your healthcare provider can get a good idea of how long you may have been infected with syphilis.

• If you are diagnosed with Primary Syphilis, you are considered to have been exposed within three months before your symptoms started. You would be asked to notify your partners in that time frame.
• If your diagnosis is Secondary Syphilis, partners from 6 months before your symptoms started should be notified.
• If you haven’t had a Syphilis test within the last year, you will be asked to notify all partners from the last year to be notified.

If you are diagnosed with syphilis, all sexual partners from the last 3 months will be asked to get treatment as well as testing.