noun phaseÂ·out \ËfÄz-ËauÌt\. : the act of stopping something gradually over a period of time in a planned series of steps or phases.
C. Incubation period: Usually 3 weeks, ranges from 10 days to 3 months for primary symptoms. D. Period of communicability: Moist mucocutaneous lesions of primary and secondary syphilis are infectious. However, it is difficult to differentiate between the infectious stage and the noninfectious early latent stage.
There are 2 stages of Syphilis: Early and Late. The definition of early Syphilis VARIES depending on which guidelines you read. According to the US CDC, if the Syphilis infection was within the past 1 year, it is considered Early Syphilis. According to the WHO it is 2 years.