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Can physical examination detect syphilis?
Usually not.

According to Baidu Health, the physical examination items are routine items, mainly including height, weight, blood routine, liver and kidney function, chest X-ray and so on. , and does not include the item of syphilis examination, so syphilis cannot be detected. Syphilis generally needs to be diagnosed by syphilis antibody examination.

Syphilis is a chronic infectious disease caused by Treponema pallidum infection. Patients are the only source of infection. Treponema pallidum is found in patients' skin lesions, blood, semen, milk and saliva, mainly through sexual transmission, mother-to-child transmission and other ways, such as blood transfusion, kissing, breastfeeding and contact with clothes or utensils contaminated by patients. If you are exposed to one or more of the above situations, you need to go to the hospital in time to check whether you are infected with syphilis.