The diagnosis of bejel is based on the geographic history of the patient as well as laboratory testing of material from the lesions (dark-field microscopy). The responsible spirochaete is readily identifiable on sight in a microscope as a treponema.
Nonvenereal endemic syphilis
Pruritic papular eruption of HIV disease
Post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis
Neurosyphilis
Syphilis
HIV-tainted blood scandal 
Melanie's Marvelous Measles
No Leprosy Patients in Our Prefecture Movement