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Yaws [PDF]

British Medical Bulletin, 2014
Yaws, caused by Treponema pallidum ssp. pertenue, is endemic in parts of West Africa, Southeast Asia and the Pacific. The WHO has launched a campaign based on mass treatment with azithromycin, to eradicate yaws by 2020.We reviewed published data, surveillance data and data presented at yaws eradication meetings.Azithromycin is now the preferred agent ...
Marks, Michael, Mitjà, Oriol, Solomon, Anthony W, Asiedu, Kingsley B, Mabey, David C   +4 more
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Yaws in Africa: Past, Present and Future [PDF]

Diseases
Background: Yaws is an infectious, neglected tropical disease that affects the skin of many children and adolescents who live in poor, rural, low-income communities in humid, tropical areas of Africa, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific Islands.
Ezekiel K. Vicar, Shirley V. Simpson, Gloria I. Mensah, Kennedy K. Addo, Eric S. Donkor   +4 more
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Global epidemiology of yaws: a systematic review [PDF]

The Lancet Global Health, 2015
Background: To achieve yaws eradication, the use of the new WHO strategy of initial mass treatment with azithromycin and surveillance twice a year needs to be extended everywhere the disease occurs. However, the geographic scope of the disease is unknown.
Dr. Oriol Mitjà, PhD, Michael Marks, MD, Diby J P Konan, MD, Gilbert Ayelo, MD, Camila Gonzalez-Beiras, BSc, Bernard Boua, MPH, Wendy Houinei, HEO, Yiragnima Kobara, MD, Earnest N Tabah, MD, Agana Nsiire, PhD, Damas Obvala, MD, Fasiah Taleo, MD, Rita Djupuri, MD, Zhang Zaixing, MD, Prof. Jürg Utzinger, PhD, Lase S Vestergaard, PhD, Quique Bassat, PhD, Kingsley Asiedu, MPH   +17 more
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Prevalence study of yaws in the Democratic Republic of Congo using the lot quality assurance sampling method. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2009
BACKGROUND:Until the 1970s the prevalence of non-venereal trepanomatosis, including yaws, was greatly reduced after worldwide mass treatment. In 2005, cases were again reported in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Sibylle Gerstl, Gédeon Kiwila, Mehul Dhorda, Sylvaine Lonlas, Mark Myatt, Benoît Kebela Ilunga, Denis Lemasson, Elisabeth Szumilin, Philippe J Guerin, Laurent Ferradini   +9 more
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Yaws in the Philippines: first reported cases since the 1970s [PDF]

Infectious Diseases of Poverty, 2020
Background Yaws is a chronic, highly contagious skin and bone infection affecting children living in impoverished, remote communities and caused by Treponema pallidum subspecies pertenue. The Philippines was thought to be free of yaws following the 1950s
Belen Lardizabal Dofitas, Sherjan P. Kalim, Camille B. Toledo, Jan Hendrik Richardus   +3 more
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Is there still yaws in Nigeria? Active case search in endemic areas of southern Nigeria. [PDF]

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2023
BackgroundYaws is a disease caused by the bacteria Treponema pallidum subspecies pertenue, which is most commonly seen among children below 15 years. In the twentieth century yaws was endemic in Nigeria but eradication strategies markedly reduced the ...
Ngozi Ekeke, Francis S Iyama, Joseph N Chukwu, Kingsley Asiedu, Michael Marks, Babatunde Omotowo, Olanike Agwu-Umahi, Victor O Nvene, Shiloh Paul, Charles C Nwafor, Anthony O Meka, Chinwe C Eze, Okechukwu E Ezeakile, Martin I Njoku, Ngozi N Murphy-Okpala   +14 more
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Epidemiologic and Genomic Reidentification of Yaws, Liberia [PDF]

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2021
We confirmed endemicity and autochthonous transmission of yaws in Liberia after a population-based, community-led burden estimation (56,825 participants). Serologically confirmed yaws was rare and focal at population level (24 cases; 2.6 [95% CI 1.4–3.9]
Joseph W.S. Timothy, Mathew A. Beale, Emerson Rogers, Zeela Zaizay, Katherine E. Halliday, Tarnue Mulbah, Romeo K. Giddings, Stephen L. Walker, Nicholas R. Thomson, Karsor K. Kollie, Rachel L. Pullan, Michael Marks   +11 more
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Effectiveness of single-dose azithromycin to treat latent yaws: a longitudinal comparative cohort study [PDF]

The Lancet Global Health, 2017
Summary: Background: Treatment of latent yaws is a crucial component of the WHO yaws eradication strategy to prevent relapse and the resulting transmission to uninfected children.
Oriol Mitjà, DrMD, Camila González-Beiras, BSc, Charmie Godornes, BSc, Reman Kolmau, BSc, Wendy Houinei, HEO, Haina Abel, BSc, August Kapa, BSc, Raymond Paru, BSc, Sibauk V Bieb, MaHM, James Wangi, MPH, Sergi Sanz, MSc, Kingsley Asiedu, MPH, Sheila A Lukehart, ProfPhD, Quique Bassat, ProfMD   +13 more
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Yaws recurrence in children at continued risk of infection. [PDF]

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2022
BackgroundIn yaws-endemic areas, children with Treponema pallidum subsp. pertenue infection may suffer recurrent episodes due to either reinfection or relapse.
Camila G Beiras, Michael Marks, Llorenç Quintó, Sergi Gavilán, Reman Kolmau, Maria Ubals, Marti Vall-Mayans, Oriol Mitjà   +7 more
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Yaws in the Western Pacific Region: A Review of the Literature [PDF]

Journal of Tropical Medicine, 2011
Until the middle of the 20th century, yaws was highly endemic and considered a serious public health problem in the Western Pacific Region (WPR), leading to intensive control efforts in the 1950s–1960s.
Corinne Capuano, Masayo Ozaki
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