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Yaws in the Western Pacific Region: A Review of the Literature
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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Epidemiologic and Genomic Reidentification of Yaws, Liberia
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 +11 more
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Advances in the Treatment of Yaws
Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2018 Yaws is one of the three endemic treponematoses and is recognised by the World Health Organization as a neglected tropical disease. Yaws is currently reported in 15 countries in the Pacific, South-East Asia, West and Central Africa, predominantly affects
Michael Marks
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Failure of PCR to Detect Treponema pallidum ssp. pertenue DNA in Blood in Latent Yaws.
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2015 Yaws, caused by Treponema pallidum ssp. pertenue, is a neglected tropical disease closely related to venereal syphilis and is targeted for eradication by 2020. Latent yaws represents a diagnostic challenge, and current tools cannot adequately distinguish
Michael Marks +8 more
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Survey of Treponemal Infections in Free-Ranging and Captive Macaques, 1999–2012
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2017 Survey results showed treponemal infection among pet macaques in Southeast Asia, a region with a high prevalence of human yaws. This finding, along with studies showing treponemal infection in nonhuman primates in Africa, should encourage a One Health ...
Amy R. Klegarth +15 more
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High Prevalence of Antibodies against the Bacterium Treponema pallidum in Senegalese Guinea Baboons (Papio papio). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 The bacterium Treponema pallidum is known to cause syphilis (ssp. pallidum), yaws (ssp. pertenue), and endemic syphilis (ssp. endemicum) in humans.
Sascha Knauf +8 more
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Yaws recurrence in children at continued risk of infection.
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 +7 more
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PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2015 BackgroundCommunity mass treatment with 30 mg/kg azithromycin is central to the new WHO strategy for eradicating yaws. Both yaws and trachoma--which is earmarked for elimination by 2020 using a strategy that includes mass treatment with 20 mg/kg ...
Michael Marks +10 more
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Integrated Mapping of Yaws and Trachoma in the Five Northern-Most Provinces of Vanuatu.
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2017 Yaws and trachoma are targeted for eradication and elimination as public health problems. In trachoma-endemic populations mass administration of azithromycin can simultaneously treat yaws.
Fasihah Taleo +14 more
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Bioinspired Hydrogels with Broadly Programmable Mechanics for Soft‐Tissue Interfaces
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Sea cucumber‐inspired gelatin hydrogels are formed by directional freezing and mechanically programmed through subsequent ionic treatment. Multiscale characterization and modeling link ion‐regulated chain interactions to directional load transfer within the aligned hierarchical architecture.
Youchao Teng +20 more
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