Syphilis: Recognition, Description and Diagnosis (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789533075549)

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.

Author: Neuza Satomi Sato
ISBN-10: 9533075546
ISBN-13: 9789533075549
Publisher: Intechopen
Language: English
Published: 11/21/2011
Pages: 142
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.38d