NR 602 Week 7 STD Healthy People 2020 Discussion: Syphillis

STD Standard  STD-7: Reduce sustained domestic transmission of primary and secondary syphilis. Background of STD Syphilis is a sexually transmitted infection (STI) caused by Treponema pallidum, which is a spirochete, or spiral-shaped bacteria (Hollier, 2018; Klein, McLaud, & Rogers, 2015; CDC, 2018). Syphilis is transmitted through direct contact with an ulcerative lesion, or chancre which appears during the primary stage (most infectious) of syphilis (Klein et al., 2018). Chancres occur main...