Harrison's Manual of Medicine
ENDEMIC TREPONEMATOSES
MICROBIOLOGY AND EPIDEMIOLOGY
The endemic treponematoses—yaws (Treponema pallidum subspecies pertenue), endemic syphilis (T. pallidum subspecies endemicum), and pinta (T. carateum)—are nonvenereal chronic diseases acquired during childhood and caused by organisms closely related to the agent of syphilis, T. pallidum subspecies pallidum.
- Disease is transmitted by direct contact.
- The most recent World Health Organization (WHO) estimate (1995) suggested that there are 460,000 new cases per year and a prevalence of 2.5 million infected persons.
- Disease is limited to people in rural areas of developing nations and recent émigrés from these regions.
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Kasper, Dennis L., et al., editors. "ENDEMIC TREPONEMATOSES." Harrison's Manual of Medicine, 20th ed., McGraw Hill Inc., 2020. harrisons.unboundmedicine.com/harrisons/view/Harrisons-Manual-of-Medicine/623250/all/ENDEMIC_TREPONEMATOSES.
ENDEMIC TREPONEMATOSES. In: Kasper DLD, Fauci ASA, Hauser SLS, et al, eds. Harrison's Manual of Medicine. McGraw Hill Inc.; 2020. https://harrisons.unboundmedicine.com/harrisons/view/Harrisons-Manual-of-Medicine/623250/all/ENDEMIC_TREPONEMATOSES. Accessed January 30, 2025.
ENDEMIC TREPONEMATOSES. (2020). In Kasper, D. L., Fauci, A. S., Hauser, S. L., Longo, D. L., Jameson, J. L., & Loscalzo, J. (Eds.), Harrison's Manual of Medicine (20th ed.). McGraw Hill Inc.. https://harrisons.unboundmedicine.com/harrisons/view/Harrisons-Manual-of-Medicine/623250/all/ENDEMIC_TREPONEMATOSES
ENDEMIC TREPONEMATOSES [Internet]. In: Kasper DLD, Fauci ASA, Hauser SLS, Longo DLD, Jameson JLJ, Loscalzo JJ, editors. Harrison's Manual of Medicine. McGraw Hill Inc.; 2020. [cited 2025 January 30]. Available from: https://harrisons.unboundmedicine.com/harrisons/view/Harrisons-Manual-of-Medicine/623250/all/ENDEMIC_TREPONEMATOSES.
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