Syphilis

Recognition, Description and Diagnosis

Neuza S. Sato

• Publisher: IntechOpen
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN: 9789533075549
• eBook ISBN: 9789535165804
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Infectious Diseases

Syphilis, a sexually transmitted disease was first described in 15th century, is caused by Treponema pallidum subsp. pallidum and occurs worldwide. This book is a collection of chapters presenting the novel knowledge about the T. pallidum and some historical and up to date information about venereal disease and syphilis. The collection of articles includes: immunological aspects recognition of T. pallidum by the pattern recognition receptors of the innate immune; the whole genome analysis of treponemes and new targets for its molecular diagnosis; some historical aspects of venereal diseases treatment; natural history of syphilis including clinical manifestation and epidemiology; a clinical aspects dealing with psychiatric manifestations of neurosyphilis; spatial and temporal patterns of primary syphilis and secondary syphilis described by the spatial and space-time scan statistics; a commonly used methods for laboratorial diagnosis, the serological response to treatment of syphilis and safety in blood transfusion. I hope this book will be useful for students and research fellows as well for the wide audience.

Table of contents

• Syphilis - Recognition, Description and Diagnosis
• Contents
• Preface
• Part 1 Treponema pallidum
• Part 2 Syphilis Disease
• Part 3 Syphilis – Laboratorial Diagnosis