Etiology and Epidemiology
The endemic treponematoses-yaws, endemic syphilis, and pinta-are nonvenereal chronic childhood diseases caused by organisms closely related to the agent of syphilis, Treponema pallidum. Early skin lesions are infectious; disease is transmitted by direct contact.
Endemic Treponematoses has been found in Harrison's Manual of Medicine 17/e
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