Those diseases are fairly easy to treat with antibiotics, though too few people are treated to keep them from spreading (there are 2m-3m new cases of chlamydial infections in America each year, 1m-2m of gonorrhea and 50,000-100,000 of syphilis).
The sexually transmitted diseases syphilis and gonorrhea are further examples of diseases classified by etiology.
Other serious bacterial diseases include cholera, diphtheria, bacterial meningitis, tetanus, Lyme disease, gonorrhea, and syphilis.
The disease is most often transmitted by sexual intercourse and is usually the result of infection with gonorrhea or chlamydia.
The incubation period of gonorrhea is usually 3 to 5 days (range 2 to 10 days).
Some common diseases and the date of discovery of their causative agent illustrate this point: anthrax (1876), gonorrhea (1879), typhoid fever (1880), malaria (1880), tuberculosis (1882), diphtheria (1883), cholera (1884), and tetanus (1884).
Various types of pneumonia; infections of the cerebrospinal fluid (meningitis), the liver, and the kidneys; and the sexually transmitted diseases syphilis and gonorrhea are all forms of bacterial infection.
Actually more than 20 STDs have been identified, and infections caused by Chlamydia trachomatis, herpes simplex virus, and human papillomavirus, although underreported, are believed to be more prevalent than gonorrhea in the United States.
On his return to Istanbul, Mustafa Kemal fell ill with kidney problems, most probably related to gonorrhea, which it is believed he had contracted earlier.
In the past, infection was treated with either penicillin or tetracycline, and one injection usually was sufficient to cure uncomplicated gonorrhea.
The case fatality rate in tuberculosis appears to be lower in Jews than in others, for example, and gonorrhea seems to be a less serious disease in blacks than in whites.
