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This is inflammatory arthritis usually occurring after an infection like food poisoning or STIs like chlamydia. It is generally characterised by the triad of arthritis, conjunctivitis and urethritis.
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d
Reactive arthritis
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While any bacterial infection can spread into the bloodstream, it is extremely rare for syphilis to cause sepsis. STIs like gonorrhoea if left untreated are more likely to cause a systemic life-threatening infection.
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e
Sepsis
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Tertiary syphilis appears 20-40 years after primary infection if it is left untreated. This tends to present with loss of proprioception, vibration and fine touch due to degeneration of dorsal columns in the spinal cord. Patients present with paraesthesia, absent reflexes and progressive ataxia.
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a
Tabes dorsalis
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This is conjunctivitis of the newborn baby contracted during birth due to contact with the maternal birth canal which is infected with an STI like chlamydia or gonorrhoea.
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c
Ophthalmia neonatorum
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This is a more common complication of sexually transmitted infections (STI) like chlamydia or gonorrhoea. These bacterial infections, if untreated, spread upwards from the vagina or cervix and cause infection of the upper reproductive tract.
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b
Pelvic inflammatory disease
Concept
Chapter
2693
4101
Stages of Syphilis
Topic
194
Infectious Diseases
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A 32-year-old female presents to
the sexual health clinic with painless round ulceration on the vulva.

On further investigation, she is diagnosed with primary syphilis. If left untreated, what is a complication that can develop in the long term?
a