Spirochetes Flashcards
1
Q
Yaws
A
T. pallidumsub pertenue
2
Q
Pinta
A
T. carateneum
3
Q
Other names for venereal syphilis
A
Great pox
The great imitator
French disease
Social disease
4
Q
Hard painless chancre
A
Primary syphilis
5
Q
Condylomata lata
A
Secondary syphilis
Yellowish papules
6
Q
Gumma
A
Tertiary syphilis
7
Q
Hutchinson’s teeth
A
Congenital syphilis
8
Q
Non-treponemal test
A
Venereal disease research lab
Rapis plasma reagin
9
Q
Treponemal test
A
Fluorescent treponemal antibody absorption
Microhemagluttination test
10
Q
Acute worsening of shilis symptoms after antibiotics treatment
A
Jarisch herxheimer syndrome
11
Q
Lyme’s disease
A
Borella burgdorferi
12
Q
Vector of lymes disease
A
Ixodes tick
13
Q
Relapsing fever/ tick fever/ famine fever
A
B. Recurrentis
14
Q
Vector of relapsing fever
A
Body louse
15
Q
Endemic syphilis
A
T. pallidum sub endemicum
Bejel
