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Also known as: French disease, Great Pox
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Scanning electron micrograph of Treponema pallidum, the spirochete bacterium that is the causative agent of syphilis.
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syphilis, systemic disease that is caused by the spirochete bacterium Treponema pallidum. Syphilis is usually a sexually transmitted disease, but it is occasionally acquired by direct nonsexual contact with an infected person, and it can also be acquired by an unborn fetus through infection in the mother. A related group of infections, collectively known as treponematosis or nonvenereal syphilis, is not spread by sexual contact and is localized in warm parts of the world where crowded conditions and poor health care favour its development. The causative organism of venereal syphilis is a slender, coiled, flexible bacterium with regular, tightly wound ...(100 of 1432 words)

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