Sentences with phrase «causing syphilis»

What it does: The role of this bacteria, which is most well - known for causing syphilis and Lyme disease, is still not well - understood in humans.

Apparently, the New World isn't all that intrepid explorer Christopher Columbus discovered; seems we may also have him to thank for spreading the pathogen that causes syphilis — along with news of the Americas — to Europe.

Don't spirochetes cause syphilis?

Both the Treponema that cause syphilis and the Borrelia that cause Lyme disease contain only a fifth of the genes they need to live on their own.

He examined the tissue with a scanning electron microscope and rinsed it with antibodies that fluoresce in the presence of the bacteria that cause syphilis, Treponema pallidum.

Untreated HIV infection can cause dementia, as can the uncontrolled replication of the microbe that causes syphilis.

The bacteria that causes syphilis, Treponema pallidum, is difficult to study in the lab, as it can't be grown in a test tube or Petri dish.

The spiral - shaped members of Treponema pallidum cause syphilis.

Not exact matches

There is also a risk of the baby developing congenital syphilis, which can cause long - term life - threatening or disabling complications.

A number of rare diseases such as congenital syphilis, histiocytosis X, zinc deficiency, Wiscott - Aldrich syndrome, acrodermatitis enteropathica, or Jacquet's dermatitis all cause characteristic diaper rashes.

A working knowledge of vaginal ecology and STI's including syphilis, gonorrhea, herpes, Chlamydia and Candida — cause, recognition, prevention and treatment.

It may seem crazy to recommend safe sex to women who are pregnant, or trying to get pregnant, but the fact is that sexually transmitted infections, like chlamydia or syphilis, can cause miscarriage, stillbirth, neonatal death, infertility, and ectopic pregnancy.

These pathogens, or spirochetes, can invade the central nervous system and, in the case of syphilis, enter the placenta, causing disease in the unborn child.

The bacterial pathogens that cause Lyme disease and syphilis are highly invasive.

«New findings could help target bacteria that cause Lyme disease, syphilis.»

Is there a connection here between syphilis and Lyme disease, which is also caused by a spirochete and which is also said to be difficult to treat when diagnosed late?

They found that the venereal syphilis - causing strains arose relatively recently in humans and are closely related to an ancient infection isolated in South America that gives rise to yaws.

Most of the scientific evidence in recent years had been gleaned from the bones of members of past civilizations in both the Old and New worlds; bones were considered credible markers since chronic syphilis causes skeletal lesions.

One hypothesis is that Treponema subspecies from the tropical Americas morphed into the more virulent venereal, syphilis - causing strains to survive in the cooler European climes.

One of the first known examples was syphilis, a sexually transmitted disease caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum.

Until we learned to treat syphilis with antibiotics, it was one of the most common causes of dementia and was frequent among the insane.

A decade ago, this week, scientists at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and the Institute for Genomic Research announced they had decoded the genetic information inside Treponema pallidum, the bacterium that causes the sexually transmitted disease (STD) syphilis.

Other infections also can cause microcephaly; in fact, out of 121 infants tested for other pathogens, 26 had evidence of infection with either toxoplasmosis, herpes simplex, cytomegalovirus, and syphilis.

Ironically enough, one of the best refutations of the idea that Neandertalism is caused by diseases such as rickets, syphilis or arthritis, is by a creationist author, Jack Cuozzo (1998, pp.275 - 279).

It is also thought to be helpful in other diseases caused by toxicity in the blood, including syphilis and gonorrhea.

The syphilis she contracted from her first husband on their wedding night is finally causing her fatigue some fifty years later.

Crack is known to cause a dramatic increase in the kind of risky sexual behavior that leads to the spread of things like HIV and syphilis.

What caused Baltimore's syphilis problem to tip?

In adults, syphilis can be transmitted sexually into the eye, causing redness and visual problems.

To differentiate it from smallpox, syphilis was called the Great Pox — according to a 1519 description it caused

And, since women can carry both syphilis and pregnancies, a rise in syphilis in this population also means a rise congenital syphilis (the transmission of syphilis from mother to fetus), which causes miscarriages, stillbirths, preterm births, neonatal death, and birth defects.

You might have heard that having an STD like syphilis, herpes, or gonorrhea can make it easier to catch HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.