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What is a syphilis?

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It is a sexually transmitted bacterial infection. Syphilis can cause a rash, lesions & in advanced cases blindness & heart damage and death. It is very treatable, but must be evaluated and treated aggressively, by antibiotics.

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What is the disease or alternate names for treponema pallidum?

Treponema pallidum causes syphilis. Syphilis is a serious disease, if untreated. Syphilis is sexually transmitted disease.


How can you cure syphilis totally from human body?

In general the only way that you can cure syphilis totally from the human body is through a course of antibiotics. However, sometimes the disease cannot be cured.


What STD causes boils?

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What kinds of conditions cause papules?

Papules are associated with such conditions as warts, syphilis, psoriasis, seborrheic and actinic keratoses, lichen planus, and skin cancer.


What does etiologies mean?

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Can you die of syphilis's?

You can die of untreated syphilis. Syphilis is easily treated, so it's not necessary to let it kill you.


Have dogs got syphilis?

No Syphilis is a human diesese that can not be transferred to pets


Can you donate a kidney if you've had syphilis?

Because syphilis gets into the blood.


What is the medical term for primary sore of syphilis?

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What is the disease or alternate names for treponema pallidum?

Treponema pallidum causes syphilis. Syphilis is a serious disease, if untreated. Syphilis is sexually transmitted disease.


What are the difference between HPV and syphilis?

HPV and syphilis are different infections. Patients with genital warts should be screened for syphilis, though, since second-stage syphilis can also causes wart-like lesions.


What are the antibody tests used to screen for syphilis?

Blood tests are usually used to check for syphilis.


What has the author Wilhelm Wechselmann written?

Wilhelm Wechselmann has written: 'The pathogenesis of salvarsan fatalities' -- subject(s): Salvarsan, Syphilis 'The treatment of syphilis with salvarsan' -- subject(s): Arsenobenzol, Syphilis


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How to treat Syphilis?

The duration of treatment for syphilis depends on the stage of infection. Early stages require a single injection of penicillin.


What illnesses did people have on the Nina?

Syphilis


Is syringomyelia hereditary?

Syphilis is not hereditary.