A stage of venereal syphilis, characterized by tissue destruction, central nervous system disease, cardiovascular abnormalities, eye disease, and granuloma-like lesions, is known as ________ syphilis

Question

a. primary
b. secondary
c. tertiary
d. quaternary

Answer 1

C
T. pallidum causes venereal (transmitted through sexual contact) syphilis. The clinical presenta-tion of venereal syphilis is varied and complex, often mimicking many other diseases. This dis-ease is divided into stages: incubating, primary, secondary, early latent, latent, and tertiary. Late, or tertiary, syphilis is the tissue-destructive phase that appears 10 to 25 years after the initial in-fection in up to 35% of untreated patients. Complications of syphilis at this stage include central nervous system disease, cardiovascular abnormalities, eye disease, and granuloma-like lesions, called gummas, in any organ.