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ine Bunker H X Course: 20185 for Mic x Seare l https://digital ed Ch 10 Homework I: 46% 04/04/18 Part 2 (0.3 point) Would it be possible for someone with yaws to infect someone clse and cause syphilis? Choose one: o A. Yes, but with low probability because of minimal contact between arm lesions and genitalia o B. No. because diferent subspecies of Treponema pallidumcause these two diseases o C. Yes, with ease, because Treponema pallidumcauses both, so cross infection is possible O D. Impossible to tell:once Treponema palliduminfects. disease type depends on infection site Part 3 (0.3 point) If a person were diagnosed with yaws and syphilis, at what point in the double infection might horizontal gene transfer be possible between the causative agents? Choose one A. Only after both have reached their secondary phases of intection B Only while bothinfectionsrernain in their primary phases C. Ornly after one of the two infections reaches a secondary phase ) K 12n4> SUBMIT ANSw &USER; This PC

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B. No, because different subspecies of Treponema palladium causes these two diseases

T. pallidum subsp.pertenue, is the causative agent of yaws.

Syphilis is cause by the Treponema pallidum subsp. pallidum ,

And the inability of the nonvenereal treponematoses to cause neurosyphilis or congenital infection

C. Only after one of the two infections reaches a secondary phase

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