Preparing for deliver, an obstetrician notices genital sores and severe swelling of the labia on a pregnant 24-year-old female. Upon questioning the woman, the doctor discovers that she previously had swollen and painful lumph nodes near her groin but did not seek treatment because she assumed it was related to the pregnancy.
1. What is the disease and causative agent?
2. What risk is there, if any, to the unborn child?
3. How should the doctor treat the woman? the newborn?
4. Left untreated, what symptoms, if any, would the newborn experience?
5. Left untreated, How might the disease progress in the woman?