SYPHILLIS Is caused by a bacteria known as treponema pallidum
Syphilis is a bacterial infection usually spread by sexual contact. The disease starts as a painless sore — typically on your genitals, rectum or mouth. Syphilis spreads from person to person via skin or mucous membrane contact with these sores
Syphilis Risk Factors
You’re at higher risk of getting syphilis if you:
Have unprotected sex
Have multiple sex partners
Have HIV
Are a man who has sex with me
IT HAS TWO MAIN TYPES 1:ACQUIRED SYPHILLIS
2:CONGENITAL SYPHILLIS
STAGES OF ACQUIRED SYPHILLIS
Early or primary syphilis. People with primary syphilis get one or more sores called chancres. They’re usually small painless ulcers. They happen on your genitals, on your anus or rectum, or in or around your mouth between 3 and 6WEEKS (25DAYS on average) after you’re exposed to the disease. Even if you don’t treat them, they heal without a scar within 6 weeks. But treatment will keep your disease from moving to the next stage.
Secondary stage :rash on the palms of the hands.
Secondary syphilis. This stage begins 6 weeks to 6 months after you’re exposed. It may last 1 to 3 months. People with secondary syphilis usually get MACULOPAPULAR RASH rash on the palms of their hands and soles of their feet. They may also have different rashes on other parts of their body. These may look like rashes caused by other diseases. People may have moist wart-like lesions in their groin, white patches on the inside of their mouth, swollen lymph glands, fever, hair loss, and weight loss. Like with primary syphilis, symptoms of secondary syphilis will get better without treatment.
OTHER SYMPTOMS :Swollen lymph nodes
Fever
FATIGUE
Sore throat
Patchy hair loss
body aches
LATENT PHASE : CAN LAST FOR 20YEARS
TERTIARY SYPHILLIS…..TYPE 4 HYPERSENSITIVITY REACTION
NEUROSYPHILISN
CARDIOVASCULAR SYPHILLIS
Vision problems (you may start going blind)
Dementia
the disease may damage your brain, nerves, eyes, heart, blood vessels, liver, bones and joints
CONGENITAL SYPHILLIS
In first two yrs
IUGR
PREMATURE DELIEVERY
Still birth
NEONATAL DEFECT
BORN Baby may has
Maculopapular rash
Snuffles
Organ damage
Eyes damage
After 2 years
Saddle nose
Saber shin
Hutchinson teeTh
DIAGNOSIS
Dark field microscopy
NON TREPONEMAL TEST
VDRL
RPR
TREPONEMAL TEST
EIA EZYME IMMUNOASSAYS
TPHA
FTA.abs
TREATMENT
Parenteral penicillin
(A Jarish Herxheimer reaction)
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