Contact with things used by syphilis patients will also infect the common 4 transmission routes of syphilis

Syphilis is a chronic contagious disease. The pathogen of syphilis is Treponema pallidum, a spirochete with serious pathogenicity to humans, which can invade any organ and produce various symptoms. Treponema pallidum only infects humans, so syphilis is the only source of infection. The route of infection is acquired syphilis, which is mainly transmitted through sexual intercourse, a few can be transmitted through kissing, and some can be transmitted to the fetus through the placenta. The syphilis patients who cannot be treated have the greatest infectivity within one year after infection. The longer the disease period, the less infectivity. After four years of infection, it is generally non-infectious through sexual contact, but it can still be transmitted from fetus.

How many ways can syphilis spread?

Syphilis is highly infectious, and its transmission routes can be divided into direct contact and non-sexual contact. Many people don't go to some irregular places at ordinary times, and they feel strange about their syphilis. The main transmission routes of syphilis are as follows.

1. Sexual contact transmission

In clinic, more than 90% of syphilis is transmitted through sexual contact with syphilis patients. The ways of sexual contact include sexual intercourse, warm kisses, and body and skin contact hugs. Due to the thin skin mucosa, rich blood vessels and extreme hyperemia during sexual intercourse, sexual friction can cause slight damage, creating conditions for the invasion of syphilis pallidum spirochete.

2. Indirect contact transmission

Contact with things used by syphilis patients, such as the patient's clothes, quilts, articles, supplies, tools, toilets, bath towels, etc., may be contaminated by the patient's secretions and infected with pallid spirochetes of syphilis. Healthy people who live closely with syphilis patients are easily infected with syphilis when they touch something with pathogenic bacteria in a slight wound.

3. Bloodborne transmission

Syphilis has a long course of disease. Treponema pallidum can be latent in the patient's blood for a period of time. Especially for patients with latent syphilis, they are infected with pathogens but have no clinical manifestations. Blood and blood products provided by healthy people and patients with other diseases can make blood patients infected with syphilis.

4. Placental transmission

When pregnant women are infected with syphilis, they can be infected with syphilis through the placenta during pregnancy. If a pregnant woman suffers from syphilis and is not found and treated in time, or the treatment is not complete, syphilis pallidum spirochete can be transmitted to the fetus through the blood circulation of the placenta, making the fetus infected with syphilis. Placental infection mainly occurs in pregnant women with early syphilis. When the fetus passes through the birth canal with syphilis, the syphilis pallidum spirochete in the birth canal can infect the fetus, resulting in the neonatal infection of syphilis.