The Pathogenic Bacteria That Is Responsible For A...

Treponema pallidum, a pathogenic bacteria that is responsible for a dangerous multistage, sexually transmitted disease called Syphilis. This disease has been rapidly growing and is very easily infectious. Many people will mistaken it for a different disease and the average amount of time for symptoms to show is 21 days. It is curable within the first two stages, but once it moves onto the late/latent stages, it’s almost incurable due to damages that took place. There are more than one type of antibiotic to treat it and multiple different tests to determine if someone is infected with Syphilis. So even if this disease is easily contracted, there are preventative precautions that can be taken place and treatment that aren’t too difficult and time consuming. What is Treponema pallidum? This is a very thin and tightly coiled gram negative spirochete bacteria that grows where little oxygen is available according to Lori E. Fantry and Edmund C. Tramont (2014). This bacteria has periplasmic flagella and contains peptidoglycan outer complex membrane. Since they lack endotoxins, they make up for it by having lipoproteins which initiates inflammation. T. pallidum were originally thought to be an anaerobe, however it is now discovered that it is a microaerophilic. Since this microbe is so thin, it requires a dark field microscope to be viewed according to Radolph (1996). Similar bacteria to T. pallidum includes T. pallidum ssp. pertenue, T. pallidum ssp. endemicum, and Treponema