Nonhuman primates across sub-Saharan Africa are infected with the yaws bacterium <i>Treponema pallidum</i> subsp. <i>pertenue</i>

Knauf, Sascha; F. Gogarten, Jan; J. Schuenemann, Verena; De Nys, Hélène; Düx, Ariane; Strouhal, Michal; Mikalová, Lenka; I. Bos, Kirsten; A. Armstrong, Roy; K. Batamuzi, E.; S. Chuma, Idrissa; Davoust, Bernard; Diatta, Georges; Fyumagwa, Robert; R. Kazwala, Reuben; D. Keyyu, Julius; A. V. Lejora, Inyasi; Levasseur, Anthony; Liu, Hsi; A. Mayhew, M.; Mediannikov, Oleg; Raoult, Didier; M. Wittig, Roman; Roos, Christian; H. Leendertz, Fabian; Šmajs, David; Nieselt, Kay; Krause, Johannes; Calvignac‐Spencer, Sébastien

doi:10.1038/s41426-018-0156-4

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Nonhuman primates across sub-Saharan Africa are infected with the yaws bacterium Treponema pallidum subsp. pertenue

Published in Emerging Microbes & Infections • Sep 18, 2018

Authors:

Sascha Knauf

Jan F. Gogarten

Verena J. Schuenemann

Abstract

The bacterium Treponema pallidum (TP) causes human syphilis (subsp. pallidum; TPA), bejel (subsp. endemicum; TEN), and yaws (subsp. pertenue; TPE)1. Although syphilis has reached a worldwide distribution2, bejel and yaws have remained endemic diseases. Bejel affects individuals in dry areas of Sahel...

Subject

Treponema

Syphilis

Biology

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