Treponema pallidum

Some people do not get treatment right away and all of the previous symptoms will disappear, which sound like a great thing, but it is actually not. It just means you still you syphilis is your system and when it does appear later, it might be even worse than before. Early treatment is your best option. I have a short video for you to watch that explains these stages in more detail with images. You can turn your head on the side if you do not want to see the images.The video did a great job summarizing the three stages of syphilis. Now I am going to talk about the Treponema pallidum which was the bacteria that causes syphilis. The guy in the video mentioned the bacteria but I am going to explain it even more. T. pallidum for short has coil spirochete shape and it has the ability to infect man. T. pallidum do not have Krebs cycle, oxidative phosphorylation, and biosynthetic pathways because they have small base pairs. Snowden explained bacteria cannot survive outside of body fluids and it can only be transmitted by sexual contact. This bacteria cannot be seem visible on agar plate meaning it cannot be grown culturally in a…

What is syphilis? Syphilis (Treponema pallidum) Syphilis is a sexually transmitted disease (STD) caused by a corkscrew-shaped bacteria called Treponema pallidum. The number of Syphilis cases in Wisconsin have been decreasing, yet syphilis prevention remains an important objective because of the serious consequences of untreated or inadequately treated syphilis and its role as a potential risk factor for HIV infection and transmission. Wisconsin is currently involved in the National Plan to…

In 1679, William Piso became one of the first people to write about the symptoms of yaws (Mitjà et al., 2013). The name of yaws may have originated from the Carib, who are an Indian tribe from South America, word for lesion (Mitjà et al., 2013). The Carib’s word was “yaya.” Since the lesions of yaws look similar to raspberries, another common name for this disease is frambesia (Mitjà et al., 2013). Aldo Castellani discovered Treponema pallidum subspecies pertenue in 1905 (Stamm, 2015). Yaws was…

Syphilis is a sexually transmitted disease(STD) that is produced by the bacterium Treponema pallidum. This disease can cause long-term complications if it is left untreated. Examples of these complications include serious damage to the heart, brains, bones, and the nervous system. If this occurs, it can lead to a person having a hard time coordinating muscle movement, paralysis, and dementia. There is a national average of 63,450 cases of syphilis a year, and for people with congenital syphilis…

Syphilis According to the CDC “the very first syphilis outbreak happened in Naples, Italy in 1994-1995” (Syphilis’ Early History). Syphilis was called “The French Disease” during the French invasion carried by troops. There are two hypothesis on how syphilis came to be. One was that Christopher Columbus brought it to Europe when he returned from the United States. The other reason is because syphilis could have been in Italy already but has not been noticed. STD’s has been around since the…

exchanging reproductive fluids or bleeding, from mother to unborn child, when lesions come in contact with broken skin, and through blood transfusions. The disease is caused by Treponema pallidum which originates from the spiral-shaped Treponema (in Greek, “turning thread”) Bacteria genus that also includes other serious illness such as bejel, yaws, and pinta. Its complicated cellular structure makes it difficult correctly to diagnose, especially since the presence of another Treponema disease…

According to the CDC there are around 200,000 reported cases of syphilis in the United States each year. Syphilis can be hard to detect since it often has the same symptoms as other diseases. In order to detect the disease, it is important to be informed about syphilis. Syphilis is a sexually transmitted bacterial infection. The bacterial infection is caused by the bacterium treponema pallidum. Treponema pallidum belongs to the Spirochaetaceae family, and is a spirochete bacterium.…

Syphilis is a sexually transmitted disease (STD). Treponema pallidum is that bacteria that causes syphilis. Treponema pallidum is a gram negative bacteria which is spiral in shape. The virulent strain of T. pallidum was first isolated in 1912 from a neurosyphilic patient by Hideyo Noguchi, a Japanese bacteriologist. Syphilis is a sexually transmitted disease but transmission can also occur between mother and child in utero, this is called congenital syphilis. Syphilis was first discovered in…

Syphilis is a sexually transmitted disease (STD) caused by a corkscrew-shaped bacteria called Treponema pallidum. Anyone who is sexually active may catch syphilis, but those at greater risk include: people diagnosed with any STD, people with a sex partner diagnosed with any STD, people with more than one sex partner, people with a new sex partner, or people who exchange sex for money or drugs. Syphilis is spread directly from person to person by direct contact with an infectious lesion. The…

In the 19th century, people would fast forty days and took multiple baths with mercury to cure syphilis. Holy wood was also used to treatment syphilis. Today, we have advance technology to learn more about syphilis and we also have discovered treatment for syphilis as well. We know now that syphilis is sexually transmitted disease and Treponema pallidum was the bacteria responsible for syphilis rather than what people thought in the past. Syphilis is sexually transmitted disease and it is spread…