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Syphilis

Medical Definition:	A contagious venereal disease caused by the spirochete TREPONEMA PALLIDUM.
Guide Notes:	Treponema infect; /diag will probably be SYPHILIS SERODIAGNOSIS: check for serol method; NEUROSYPHILIS & its indentions are also available

Syphilis Categories.

	Chancre - The primary sore of syphilis, a painless indurated, eroded papule, occurring at the site of entry of the infection.
	Syphilis, Cardiovascular
	Syphilis, Congenital - Syphilis acquired in utero and manifested by any of several characteristic tooth (Hutchinson's teeth) or bone malformations and by active mucocutaneous syphilis at birth or shortly thereafter. Ocular and neurologic changes may also occur.
	Syphilis, Cutaneous - Cutaneous lesions arising from infection with Treponema pallidum. In the primary stage, 18-21 days following infection, one or more chancres appear. If untreated, the subsequent stages of the disease appear as syphilids. These eruptions are superficial, nondestructive, exanthematic, transient, macular roseolas that may later be maculopapular or papular polymorphous or scaly, pustular, pigmented eruptions.(Arnold, Odom, and James, Andrew's Diseases of the Skin, 8th ed, p409)
	Syphilis, Latent

Syphilis Medical Definitions and Terms

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