Nonhuman primates across sub-Saharan Africa are infected with the yaws bacterium Treponema pallidum subsp. pertenue

Sascha Knauf; Jan F. Gogarten; Verena J. Schuenemann; Helene Marie De Nys; Ariane Düx; Michal Strouhal; Lenka Mikalová; Kirsten I. Bos; Roy A. Armstrong; E. K. Batamuzi; Idrissa S. Chuma; Bernard Davoust; Georges Diatta; Robert Fyumagwa; Reuben R. Kazwala; Julius D. Keyyu; Inyasi A. V. Lejora; Anthony Levasseur; Hsi Liu; M. A. Mayhew; Oleg Mediannikov; Didier Raoult; Roman Martin Wittig; Christian Roos; Fabian Hubertus Leendertz; David Šmajs; Kay Nieselt; Johannes Krause; Sébastien Calvignac‐Spencer

doi:10.1038/s41426-018-0156-4

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Dear Editor,The bacterium Treponema pallidum (TP) causes human syphilis (subsp. pallidum; TPA), bejel (subsp. endemicum; TEN), and yaws (subsp. pertenue; TPE)1. Although syphilis has reached a worl...

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