Syphilis: Top 5 Symptoms

The entire lifecycle of syphilis has five parts: primary syphilis, secondary syphilis, latent syphilis, tertiary syphilis, and neurosyphilis. Each of these five stages has symptoms that can be diagnosed independently.

The primary stage of syphilis, which occurs due to sexual contact with an infected individual, includes skin lesions or ulcers generally on the genitalia of the infected individual, but can also occur at any other location on the body. These syphilis ulcers, referred to as chancre, are firm and painless even though they may persist for four to seven weeks.