Manual of the Medical Department (NAVMED P-117): Chapter 15: Medical Examinations: Physical Standards
Department of the Navy
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery
(a) Chronic sexually transmitted disease which has not satisfactorily responded to treatment. The finding of a positive serologic test for syphilis following the adequate treatment of syphilis is not in itself considered evidence of chronic sexually transmitted disease which has not responded to treatment.
(b) Positive serologic tests for syphilis (STS) with negative TPI test unless there is a documented history of adequately treated lues or any of the several conditions which are known to give a false-positive STS (vaccinia, infectious hepatitis, immunizations, atypical pneumonia, etc.) or unless there has been a reversal to a negative STS during an appropriate follow-up period (3 to 6 months).
(c) Complications and permanent residuals of sexually transmitted disease it progressive, of such nature as to interfere with the satisfactory performance of duty, or it subject to aggravation by military service.
(d) Neurosyphilis.