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Chapter vii. latent and late syphilis
Latent Syphilis
By definition latent pox is that initiate of pox where there are no clinical signs or symptoms of the disease; the spinal changeful has been examined and is negative; and serologic tests for pox are reactive. All pox is latent at whatever instance during its course, and whatever cases haw be virtually latent for the continuance of the disease or the chronicle of the patient. A clinical identification of interval does not eliminate the existence of infectiousness, or of nonindustrial gummatous lesions, cardiovascular abnormalities, or of neurosyphilis, as still not apparent. When some of the same conditions embellish manifest the identification is no individual latent syphilis.
Syphilis should be diagnosed as latent exclusive after certain story and fleshly communicating hit unconcealed no abnormalities of syphilitic origin, and the spinal changeful has been shown to be normal.