Medicine:Treponematosis
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Treponematosis is a term used to individually describe any of the diseases caused by four members of the bacterial genus Treponema. The four diseases are collectively referred to as treponematoses:[1]
- Syphilis (Treponema pallidum pallidum)
- Yaws (Treponema pallidum pertenue)
- Bejel (Treponema pallidum endemicum)
- Pinta (Treponema carateum)
Traditional laboratory tests cannot distinguish the treponematoses.[2] However, sequence differences among the T. pallidum subspecies have been identified. Molecular approaches involving PCR to identify these sequences are being developed.[3]
References
- ↑ Giacani, L.; Lukehart, S. A. (2014). "The Endemic Treponematoses". Clinical Microbiology Reviews 27 (1): 89–115. doi:10.1128/CMR.00070-13. PMID 24396138.
- ↑ "Endemic treponemal diseases". Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 108 (10): 601–7. October 2014. doi:10.1093/trstmh/tru128. PMID 25157125.
- ↑ "Advances in the diagnosis of endemic treponematoses: yaws, bejel, and pinta". PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases 7 (10): e2283. 2013. doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0002283. PMID 24205410.
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