Chapter 2, Problem 2.8.13C

A man was diagnosed as having tertiary syphilis. He had been a responsible business man, a caring husband and a loving father until 3 years previously. At that time, his personality changed drastically. He became angry, abusive and dangerous. This culminated in him savagely killing a man and his son. The only physical symptom that he complained about was severe headaches.   1. What tests for syphilis would have been performed on serum?2. What would the results have been?3. What test would have been performed on his CSF in order to define his condition as tertiary syphilis?   The new boyfriend of a woman has assured her that he has never had syphilis. Just to be sure, she asks him to have syphilis testing. His RPR was non-reactive and his FTA-ABS was reactive. 4. Should she believe him? 5. Why or why not?

Please help me to answer ALL the letters with the correct answer. NO MORE EXPLANATION 2. A 4 month old baby was taken by her mother to the health center you are assigned. The mother reported that the baby had fever for two days already. The baby's temperature is 37.3 0C. The patient lives in San Andres Manila and has never traveled elsewhere. She did not have measles for the past 3 months and has not developed any generalized rash. The baby has cough for 3 days already. What other information would be necessary before you decide on the patient's over-all fever classification? A. episodes of high grade fever B. episodes of diarrhea  C. presence of signs of bleeding D. presence of pus draining from the eye.3. An 8 week old infant comes in for check up in the health center you were assigned. The vaccination card of the infant showed that BCG was received a day after her birth and her DPT1, OPV1 and Hep B1 were given on her 6th week. The mother said she tends to forget the baby's follow-up…

Below is the summary of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study.  What sorts of ethical problems does this study present?      Tuskegee syphilis study, it’s official name is “Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male”. It’s an American medical research project that earned notoriety for its unethical experimentation on African American patients in the rural South. The project was conducted by the U.S. Public Health Service from 1932 to 1972 to examine the natural course of untreated syphilis in African American men.  The research was intended to test whether syphilis caused cardiovascular damage more often than neurological damage and to determine if the natural course of syphilis in black men was significantly different from that in whites.  To recruit participants for its study, the PHS enlisted the support of the prestigious Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University), located in Macon County, Alabama. A group of 399 infected patients and 201 uninfected control patients were…