Any method of data analysis that focuses on the length of survival. Also refers to bacteria which can be killed or inhibited by the drugs used against them. Showing clinical pathology or changes indicative of disease, such as HIV disease. Often symptomatic HIV disease means clinical evidence of HIV infection in absence of an AIDS diagnosis, indicative of, relating to or constituting the aggregate of symptoms of a disease. Any perceptible, subjective change in the body or its functions that indicates disease or phases of disease, as reported by the patient.
Initial presentation is in the form of a hard, often painless chancre in the genital area.
Untreated syphilis can progress to neurological disease, blindness, and death. Sometimes applies to medications that are taken orally or parenterally that saturate the entire body.