secondary syphilis

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secondary syphilis

The second and highly infectious stage of syphilis, appearing from seven to ten weeks after the initial exposure, characterized by a general skin rash accompanied by various symptoms of illness such as fatigue, headache, sore throat, muscle pain, and fever.

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secondary syphilis - the second stage; characterized by eruptions of the skin and mucous membrane

lues, lues venerea, pox, syph, syphilis - a common venereal disease caused by the treponema pallidum spirochete; symptoms change through progressive stages; can be congenital (transmitted through the placenta)

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lues lues venerea pox syph syphilis			health officials in 2006, according to CDC, representing an almost 12 percent increase in primary and secondary syphilis cases over 2005. North Carolina door-to-door health campaign fighting syphilis, HIV by Johnson, Teddi Dineley / The Nation's Health Other common symptoms of a secondary syphilis are fever, malaise, weight loss, headache and meningismus. Syphilis Causes, Symptoms and Treatment by Serge Dandelin / Health care industry community The ulcer can resolve without treatment after three to six weeks, but the disease can recur months later as secondary syphilis if the primary stage is not treated. Syphilis ? Causes and Symptoms by peterhutch / Health, general community			secondary imagery dissemination system secondary loads secondary meristem secondary modern school secondary offering secondary picket secondary picketing Secondary planet secondary port secondary processes secondary qualities Secondary quills secondary rescue facilities secondary road Secondary rocks Secondary roots secondary school secondary sex character secondary sex characteristic secondary sexual characteristic secondary source secondary storage secondary stress secondary structure secondary succession secondary syphilis secondary targets Secondary tint secondary tissue Secondary union Secondary use secondary wall secondary water terminal secondary wave secondary wave breaker system secondary winding seconde secondee seconder secondhand secondhand car secondhand smoke secondi secondly secondment secondo seconds Secotiaceae Secotiales secpar Secre			secondary stratigraphic trap secondary stress secondary stress Secondary strike secondary structure secondary structure Secondary structure of proteins Secondary structure of proteins Secondary Structure Prediction by Deviation Parameter secondary structure RNA secondary structure RNA secondary structure RNA secondary structures secondary structures secondary substation Secondary succession Secondary succession Secondary suite Secondary suite Secondary suite Secondary Supply Route Secondary Surge Arrester Secondary surveillance radar Secondary surveillance radar Secondary surveillance radar Secondary Switching Area Secondary Switching Device Secondary Symbol Estimation secondary symptom Secondary Synchronization Channel secondary syphilis Secondary System Relief secondary systemic amyloid Secondary Target Secondary Target secondary targets Secondary Tax on Companies secondary tectonite secondary teeth Secondary Telecommunications Center Secondary Tertiary Alignment Resource secondary thrombocytosis secondary tide station Secondary tint secondary tissue secondary tissue Secondary Trade Secondary Trades Secondary Training Activities Secondary Training Audience Secondary Transmission Level Point Secondary Traumatic Stress Disorder Secondary Traumatic Stress Response Secondary Treated Sewage Water Secondary Treatment secondary trend Secondary Trends

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