Treponematosis

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Treponematosis
Specialty Infectious disease

Treponematosis is a term used to individually describe any of the diseases caused by four members of the bacterial genus Treponema . The four diseases are collectively referred to as treponematoses: [1]

Traditional laboratory tests cannot distinguish the treponematoses. [2] However, sequence differences among the T. pallidum subspecies have been identified. Molecular approaches involving PCR to identify these sequences are being developed. [3]

References

  1. ↑ Giacani, L.; Lukehart, S. A. (2014). "The Endemic Treponematoses". Clinical Microbiology Reviews. 27 (1): 89–115. doi:10.1128/CMR.00070-13. PMC   3910905 . PMID   24396138.
  2. ↑ Marks M, Solomon AW, Mabey DC (October 2014). "Endemic treponemal diseases". Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 108 (10): 601–7. doi:10.1093/trstmh/tru128. PMC   4162659 . PMID   25157125.
  3. ↑ Mitjà O, Šmajs D, Bassat Q (2013). "Advances in the diagnosis of endemic treponematoses: yaws, bejel, and pinta". PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases. 7 (10) e2283. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0002283 . PMC   3812090 . PMID   24205410.


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