What is syphilis?

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i need it for a project 4 high school.

Answer 1

Syphilis is a sexually transmitted infection (STI) caused by a spirochaete bacterium, Treponema pallidum. Syphilis has many alternate names, including "syph", "Cupid's Disease", "the Pox" (or "great pox", to distinguish it from smallpox), "lues" (hence luiphobia, or fear of syphilis), and the "French disease."

The route of transmission of syphilis is almost invariably by sexual contact; however, there are examples of direct contact infections (see yaws) and of congenital syphilis (transmission from mother to child in utero).

The signs and symptoms of syphilis are myriad; before the advent of serological testing, diagnosis was more difficult and the disease was dubbed the "Great Imitator" because it was so often confused with other diseases.

Syphilis can be treated with penicillin or other antibiotics. Statistically, oral treatment is dramatically less effective than other treatments because patients tend not to complete the course. The oldest, and still most effective, method is to inject benzathine penicillin into each buttock (procaine is added to make the pain bearable); the dose must be given half in each buttock because the amount given would be too painful if given in a single injection.

Another treatment is to administer several tablets of azithromycin (which has a long duration of action) orally under observation. This latter course may soon be obsolete, as strains of syphilis resistant to azithromycin have developed, and accounted for 56% of San Francisco infections in 2004.[1] Other treatments are less effective as the patient is required to take pills several times a day.

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Answer 2

bacterial STD that is easiliy curable with a huge dose of penicillin. It causes deteoriation in the brain if left untreated, and a late clinical manifestation is whelp like lesions around the groin.

Odd fact for you: Al Capone suffered from dementia from syphilis.

Like another answer said, though... go to wikipedia!!!

Answer 3

sexually transmitted disease caused by treponema pallidum a bacterium. It has 3 stages, 1 stage is characterized by a chancre on the genitals, second- lesions all over the body, very contagious, third-if not treated of coarse, senility, the bacteria attacks the central nervous system, after that-death.

Answer 4

theres all the info you could ever possibly want below, and its sources are from doctors, which is obviously more accurate than random people writing facts at wikipedia. hope it helps!

Answer 5

it is an old std that can be cured since it is a bacterial disease.

Answer 6

look it up on wikipedia .. That site has eveyrthing!!!

Answer 7

what is the signs