Catalog

Late syphilitic polyneuropathy

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Link to WHO Definition

Late syphilitic polyneuropathy – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/1073102476

This is a late, sexually transmitted infection caused by the spirochete bacterium Treponema pallidum subspecies pallidum. This diagnosis with a serious, unpredictable, occasionally progressive, and life threatening neurological disorder that occurs when many nerves throughout the body malfunction simultaneously.