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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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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, Ulrike Barnett, Peter Maciej, Matthias Klapproth, Ibrahima Ndao, Sieghard Frischmann, Julia Fischer, Dietmar Zinner, Hsi Liu   +8 more
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Nonhuman primates across sub-Saharan Africa are infected with the yaws bacterium Treponema pallidum subsp. pertenue [PDF]

, 2018
Dear Editor, The bacterium Treponema pallidum (TP) causes human syphilis (subsp. pallidum; TPA), bejel (subsp. endemicum; TEN), and yaws (subsp. pertenue; TPE) (1).
Armstrong, Roy, Batamuzi, Emmanuel K., Bos, Kirsten I., Calvignac-Spencer, Sébastien, Chuma, Idrissa S., Davoust, Bernard, De Nys, Hélène M., Diatta, Georges, Düx, Ariane, Fyumagwa, Robert D., Gogarten, Jan F., Kazwala, Reuben R., Keyyu, Julius D., Knauf, Sascha, Krause, Johannes, Leendertz, Fabian H., Lejora, Inyasi A.V., Levasseur, Anthony, Liu, Hsi, Mayhew, Michael, Mediannikov, Oleg, Mikalová, Lenka, Nieselt, Kay, Raoult, Didier, Roos, Christian, Schuenemann, Verena J., Smajs, David, Strouhal, Michal, Wittig, Roman M.   +28 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, 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

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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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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Yaws elimination in Ecuador: Findings of a serological survey of children in Esmeraldas province to evaluate interruption of transmission

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2022
Background The WHO roadmap for neglected tropical diseases includes yaws eradication requiring certification of elimination of transmission in all endemic and formerly endemic countries worldwide.
Philip J. Cooper, Mariella Anselmi, Cintia Caicedo, Andrea Lopez, Yosselin Vicuña, Jaen Cagua Ordoñez, Julio Rivera Bonilla, Alejandro Rodriguez, Aida Soto, Angel Guevara   +9 more
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Challenges and key research questions for yaws eradication. [PDF]

, 2015
Yaws is endemic in west Africa, southeast Asia, and the Pacific region. To eradicate yaws by 2020, WHO has launched a campaign of mass treatment with azithromycin.
Asiedu, Kingsley B, Ballard, Ronald C, Bassat, Quique, Chen, Cheng-Yen, Emerson, Paul M, Fegan, David, Knauf, Sascha, Kool, Jacob, Lukehart, Sheila, Mabey, David CW, Marks, Michael, Martin, Diana L, Mitjà, Oriol, Pillay, Allan, Solomon, Anthony W, Taleo, Fasihah, Vestergaard, Lasse S, Ye, Tun   +17 more
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Yaws.

, 2013
Yaws is an infectious disease caused by Treponema pallidum pertenue-a bacterium that closely resembles the causative agent of syphilis-and is spread by skin-to-skin contact in humid tropical regions. Yaws causes disfiguring, and sometimes painful lesions
Asiedu, Kingsley, Mabey, David, Mitjà, Oriol   +2 more
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Electrocatalytic Reduction of CO2 to Ethylene: Catalyst Design and Synchrotron‐Based Characterizations

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This review evaluates strategies for electrochemical CO2 reduction to ethylene, focusing on copper‐based catalyst design and microenvironment modulation to achieve industrial‐grade performance. By leveraging operando synchrotron‐based characterizations, we provide a multiscale understanding of dynamic structural transformations and key reaction ...
Meng Zhang, Zuolong Chen, Yimin A. Wu
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