a latent infection

Latent infection is different because the infection be present,but not causing no symptoms that what makes this infection different from acute and chronic infections.

non persistent infection without symptomatic relapses and remission

You had the infection for a length of time and it turned into latent syphilis.

There are several types of microbes that could cause infection and they may be acute chronic or latent infections. A microbe that could cause an acute infection is rhinovirus, one that could cause a chronic infection is hepatitis C and one that could cause a latent infection is herpes zoster.