Harrison's Manual of Medicine 17/e

Endemic Treponematoses

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.

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Endemic Treponematoses
Last updated: May 11, 2009
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