The abrupt onslaught of the syphilis pandemic that started in the late fifteenth century
established this devastating infectious disease as one of the most feared in human history 1. …

Syphilis is an important public health problem and an increasing incidence has been noted
in recent years. Characterization of strain diversity through molecular data plays a critical …

From January 2011 to December 2013, a total of 262 samples, from 188 patients suspected
of having syphilis were tested for the presence of treponemal DNA by PCR amplification of …

Syphilis, caused by Treponema pallidum subsp. pallidum (TPA), remains an important public
health problem with an increasing worldwide prevalence. Despite recent advances in in …

Objectives Bejel, caused by Treponema pallidum subsp. endemicum (TEN), was until now
considered as a non-venereal disease endemic in areas with hot and dry climates. This study …

… loci identified in this study compared to results obtained by Grillová and coleagues [21]. …
Similar results were also found in the work of Grillová and colleagues [21]. These findings …

… The antibiotic resistance of TPA was comprehensively reviewed by L. Stamm. This article
focuses on the occurrence of macrolide resistance in TPA strains with respect to the de novo …

A total of 54 clinical samples, including genital lesion swabs, whole blood and cerebrospinal
fluid from patients diagnosed with syphilis were collected in 2006 and in 2013 in Buenos …

Treponema pallidum strains are closely related at the genome level but cause distinct diseases.
Subspecies pallidum (TPA) is the causative agent of syphilis, subspecies pertenue (TPE…

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and sequencingbased treponeme typing was
used to analyze 72 blood samples, collected from human immunodeficiency virus and syphilis …