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Yaws: A Second (and Maybe Last?) Chance for Eradication.
We review a growing body of medical and physiological evidence indicating...
Direct Link | 11th October, 2008
| Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, United States of
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Isolation and laboratory maintenance of Treponema pallidum.
The spirochetal bacteria that cause syphilis, yaws, and bejel cannot be...
Direct Link | 8th October, 2008
| University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.
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| International health, the early cold war and Latin America.
| 4th October, 2008
| Departamento de Ciencias Sociales y Salud Facultad de Salud Publica
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The sequence of the acidic repeat protein (arp) gene differentiates venereal from nonvenereal Treponema pallidum subspecies, and the gene has evolved under strong positive selection in the subspecies that causes syphilis.
Despite the completion of the Treponema pallidum genome project, only...
Direct Link | 4th October, 2008
| Department of Population Biology, Ecology, and Evolution, Emory
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| The return of yaws.
| 17th September, 2008
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| Yaws eradication: past efforts and future perspectives.
| 17th September, 2008
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Noble goals, unforeseen consequences: control of tropical diseases in colonial Central Africa and the iatrogenic transmission of blood-borne viruses.
BACKGROUND: In southern Cameroon, 40-50% of individuals born before 1945...
Direct Link | 21st June, 2008
| Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, University of
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Cutaneous chancroid in a visitor from Vanuatu.
A 23-year-old woman from Vanuatu presented to an Australian hospital with...
Direct Link | 28th May, 2008
| School of Medicine, James Cook University, Cairns Campus, Cairns,
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On the origin of the treponematoses: a phylogenetic approach.
BACKGROUND: Since the first recorded epidemic of syphilis in 1495,...
Direct Link | 1st February, 2008
| Department of Population Biology, Ecology, and Evolution, Emory
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Infectious diseases. Isolated tribe gives clues to the origins of syphilis.
BACKGROUND: Since the first recorded epidemic of syphilis in 1495,...
Direct Link | 1st February, 2008
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| [Yaws in Cote d'lvoire: health problem forgotten and neglected]
| 4th January, 2008
| Departement de Sante Publique,
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The Indian Ocean paradox revisited: HIV and sexually transmitted infections in the Comoros.
The combination of high sexually transmitted infection (STI) prevalence...
Direct Link | 7th November, 2007
| Center for International Health, University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke,
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| Can Southeast Asia eradicate yaws by 2010? Some lessons from the Yaws Eradication Programme of India.
| 25th October, 2007
| Department of Community Medicine, Lady Hardinge Medical College and
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