Treatment of Treponema pallidum

Drugs of Choice: Penicillin G
Alternatives: Ceftriaxone, Doxycycline 
Third-Line agents: Azithromycin, Erythromycin
Comments: (Spirochete). 

• Causative agent of syphilis. 
• Characteristic helical shape.

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