MICROBIO 140P Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Borrelia Burgdorferi, Drug User, Smallpox
20 Mar 2016
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1500-1980 people worried about this std others: hiv/aids. Crab lice (like head lice but these are only transmitted through sexual contact. Called the great pox to distinguish from small pox. Shakespeare possibly had been infected and also may have died from syphilis. Syphilis= different symptomatic degrees: oozing canker symptomatic degrees, sherwood researched it: took pus from infected patient"s wound, proved the lesion was the source, get infected and died. Caused by bacterium: treponema this is a spirochete (looks exactly like borrelia burgdorferi. When you"re still infected, you"re still infectious. Gummas: the human"s immune system reaction that actually eats away at own cells. Tertiary syphilis: non-infectious, about of patients reach this infectious stage. North american and western european rates shift to msm (men who have sex with men) and illicit drug users. People wanted to point fingers at the infected person while it was really a mutual offense for having unprotected sex.
