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Treponema pallidum Infection in the Wild Baboons of East Africa: Distribution and Genetic Characterization of the Strains Responsible

It has been known for decades that wild baboons are naturally infected with Treponema pallidum, the bacterium that causes the diseases syphilis (subsp. pallidum), yaws (subsp. pertenue), and bejel (subsp. endemicum) in humans. Recently, a form of T. pallidum infection associated with severe genital...

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Autores principales: Harper, Kristin N., Fyumagwa, Robert D., Hoare, Richard, Wambura, Philemon N., Coppenhaver, Dorian H., Sapolsky, Robert M., Alberts, Susan C., Tung, Jenny, Rogers, Jeffrey, Kilewo, Morris, Batamuzi, Emmanuel K., Leendertz, Fabian H., Armelagos, George J., Knauf, Sascha
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3527465/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23284649
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0050882