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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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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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No evidence for yaws infection in a small‐scale cross‐sectional serosurvey in Ghanaian monkeys

Veterinary Medicine and Science, 2023
Background Treponema pallidum (TP) is a spirochaete bacterium with subspecies that in humans cause syphilis (subsp. pallidum), bejel (subsp. endemicum) and yaws (subsp. pertenue; TPE).
Eugene Adade, Christian Roos, Idrissa Shomari Chuma, Augustina Angelina Sylverken, Sascha Knauf   +4 more
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Epidemiological situation of yaws in the Americas: A systematic review in the context of a regional elimination goal. [PDF]

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2019
BACKGROUND:Yaws is targeted for eradication by 2020 in the WHA66.12 resolution of the World Health Assembly. The objective of this study was to describe the occurrence of yaws in the Americas and to contribute to the compilation of evidence based on ...
Ana Clara Zoni, Martha Idalí Saboyá-Díaz, Luis Gerardo Castellanos, Rubén Santiago Nicholls, Vendula Blaya-Novakova   +4 more
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Effectiveness of single-dose azithromycin to treat latent yaws: a longitudinal comparative cohort study

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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Global epidemiology of yaws: a systematic review

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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“YAWS IN INDIA.” [PDF]

British Journal of Dermatology, 1896
ERUPTIONS OF THE SKIN PRODUCED BY THE LOCAL APPLICATION OF ICHTHYOL. J. C. McGuire, M.D. (Medical Record, New York, October 17, 1896, p. 555.)
Powell, Arthur, Pernet, George
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Serosurvey of Treponema pallidum infection among children with skin ulcers in the Tarangire-Manyara ecosystem, northern Tanzania

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2020
Background The first yaws eradication campaign reduced the prevalence of yaws by 95%. In recent years, however, yaws has reemerged and is currently subject to a second, ongoing eradication campaign.
Clara K. C. Lubinza, Simone Lueert, Luisa K. Hallmaier-Wacker, Esther Ngadaya, Idrissa S. Chuma, Rudovick R. Kazwala, Sayoki G. M. Mfinanga, Klaus Failing, Christian Roos, Sascha Knauf   +9 more
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Conformity of yaws clinical features to combined rapid diagnostic test in children aged 2-15 years in an endemic area

Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, 2022
Introduction: The diagnosis of yaws is established by clinical examination and confirmed through a laboratory test. Unrecognized lesions may lead to a missed opportunity for diagnosis and complete eradication of yaws. The use of Dual Path Platform (DPP®
Sri Linuwih SW Menaldi, Joanne Natasha, Joses Saputra, Melani Marissa, Yudo Irawan, Dewi Friska, Danang Tri Wahyudi   +6 more
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Yaws resurgence in Bankim, Cameroon: The relative effectiveness of different means of detection in rural communities.

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2017
BackgroundYaws is an infectious, debilitating and disfiguring disease of poverty that mainly affects children in rural communities in tropical areas. In Cameroon, mass-treatment campaigns carried out in the 1950s reduced yaws to such low levels that it ...
Alphonse Um Boock, Paschal Kum Awah, Ferdinand Mou, Mark Nichter   +3 more
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