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Treponema pallidum is a gram-negative bacterium that causes syphilis syphilis is a sexually transmitted disease and affects the skin and mucous membranes of the external genitalia and also sometimes the mouth Treponema pallidum is an obligate parasite bacteria meaning that it can't survive outside of a living body to be more specific that's the human beings body they belong to a group of bacteria called spirochetes which are long and thin and contain endo flagella which is a band of protein filaments that coil within the spirochetes and give them a spiral e shape kind of like a curly fry but less appetizing the end of flagella also helped the spirochetes to move around by spinning or twisting it's a bit like a drill that's slowly boring into a piece of wood people that have syphilis can transmit the disease in one of two ways the first way is called acquired syphilis and it's when Treponema pallidum enters the body through body fluids that can happen when there are tiny cuts or breaks