A stage of venereal syphilis characterized by tissue destruction, central nervous disease, cardiovascular abnormalities, eye disease, and granuloma-like lesions is known as

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Treponema pallidum causes venereal (transmitted through sexual contact) syphilis. The clinical presentation of venereal syphilis is varied and complex, often mimicking many other diseases. This disease is divided into stages: incubating, primary, secondary, early latent, latent, and tertiary. Late, or tertiary syphilis, is the tissue-destructive phase that appears 10 to 25 years after the initial infection in up to 35% of untreated patients. Complications of syphilis at this stage include central nervous disease, cardiovascular abnormalities, eye disease, and granuloma-like lesions, called gummas, in any organ.

A Stage of Venereal Syphilis Characterized by Tissue Destruction, Central