Acquired syphilis. This is generally transmitted through sex with an infected partner. There are several stages: ...
The range of symptoms makes it easy to confuse syphilis with less serious diseases and ignore its early signs. Acquired syphilis has four stages (primary, secondary, latent, and tertiary) and can be spread by sexual contact during the first three of ...
Drying quickly kills the germs, so they must remain wet; they generally enter the body through a living source"another person (acquired syphilis) or through the placenta to the unborn child (congenital syphilis).
Interstitial keratitis affects both eyes and usually occurs as a complication of congenital or acquired syphilis. In congenital syphilis, it can occur between age two and puberty.
 See also: Sore, Symptom, Kidney, Immune System, Deficiency
  
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