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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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A sero-epidemiological approach to explore transmission of Mycobacterium ulcerans [PDF]

, 2016
The debilitating skin disease Buruli ulcer (BU) is caused by infection with Mycobacterium ulcerans. While various hypotheses on potential reservoirs and vectors of M. ulcerans exist, the mode of transmission has remained unclear.
Ampah, Kobina Assan, Asare, Prince, De-Graft, Daniel, Kerber, Sarah, Nickel, Beatrice, Pluschke, Gerd, Ross, Amanda, Röltgen, Katharina, Singh, Mahavir, Spallek, Ralf, Yeboah-Manu, Dorothy   +10 more
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A new astrobiological model of the atmosphere of Titan [PDF]

, 2016
We present results of an investigation into the formation of nitrogen-bearing molecules in the atmosphere of Titan. We extend a previous model (Li et al.
Allen, Mark, Willacy, Karen, Yung, Yuk
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Mapping the epidemiology of yaws in the Solomon Islands: a cluster randomized survey. [PDF]

, 2015
Yaws, a non-venereal treponemal disease, is targeted for eradication by 2020 but accurate epidemiological data to guide control programs remain sparse. The Solomon Islands reports the second highest number of cases of yaws worldwide.
Bottomley, Christian, Dalipanda, Tenneth, Mabey, David C, Marks, Michael, Pavluck, Alex, Puiahi, Elliot, Sokana, Oliver, Solomon, Anthony W, Vahi, Ventis, Zhang, Zaixing   +9 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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Comparison of Syphilis Rapid Diagnostic Test to Rapid Plasma Reagin, Treponema pallidum Haemagglutination Assay and Fluorescent Treponemal Antibody-Absorption for Syphilis and Yaws Diagnostics

Indonesian Biomedical Journal, 2020
BACKGROUND: Syphilis and yaws are the treponemal infections which have become serious public health problems, and both are serologically indistinguishable. Developed serological tests for syphilis may also be used to diagnose yaws.
Astuti Giantini, Dewi Wulandari, Siskawati Suparmin   +2 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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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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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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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, 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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