Syphilis - Recognition, Description and Diagnosis - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9533075546 ISBN 13: 9789533075549

Verlag: IntechOpen, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: IntechOpen
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 9533075546
• ISBN 13: 9789533075549
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 140
• Herausgeber: Sato Neuza Satomi
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: preigu GmbH & Co. KG; mail@preigu.de; ; Lengericher Landstr. 19; Osnabrück; Niedersachsen; 49078; Deutschland