- Abstract:
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BACKGROUND: Since the first recorded epidemic of syphilis in 1495, controversy has surrounded the origins of the bacterium Treponema pallidum subsp. pallidum and its relationship to the pathogens responsible for the other treponemal diseases: yaws, endemic syphilis, and pinta. Some researchers have argued that the syphilis-causing bacterium, or its progenitor, was brought from the New World to Europe by Christopher Columbus and his men, while others maintain that the treponematoses, includin...
Expand abstract - Publication status:
- Published
- Journal:
- PLoS neglected tropical diseases
- Volume:
- 2
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- e148
- Publication date:
- 2008
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1935-2735
- ISSN:
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1935-2727
- URN:
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uuid:4fe8b9d2-25f6-4eb3-8cd2-21a62e9c4372
- Source identifiers:
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19634
- Local pid:
- pubs:19634
- Language:
- English
- Keywords:
- Copyright date:
- 2008
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On the origin of the treponematoses: a phylogenetic approach.
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