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.
Congenital Syphilis. 1  A mother infected with syphilis can pass the disease to her unborn child, either during pregnancy or in childbirth. A newborn infected in this manner has congenital syphilis. 2  Early signs generally appear from three to eight weeks after a baby is born.