Syphilis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Syphilis is a sexually transmitted disease caused by the spirochetal bacterium Treponema pallidum subspecies pallidum . The route of transmission of syphilis is almost always through sexual conta...
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The Origin of Syphilis ... He seems ambivalent about the New World origin of syphilis – "Moreover, it would have been impossible that this contagion, which per se is slow to act and is not easily received, should have traversed so much of the world after having been first conveyed to the Spanish by a single fleet of ships.
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Other treponomes are responsible for the three non-venereal forms of syphilis, which primarily affect the skin and are most common in early childhood. Bejel, also caused by Treponema pallidum, is prevalent among Bedouin tribes and elsewhere in the Middle East;
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The Medscape Journal ... Allergy & Clinical Immunology ... Diabetes & Endocrinology...
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People sometimes wonder why it matters where syphilis came from. Or worse, they suspect that it is just a front -- a way to play "blame the victim" by putting the origin of the scourge in ... John Noble Wilford covers a new article on the New World origin of syphilis, researched by Kristin Harper and George Armelagos.
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johnhawks.net/weblog/reviews/health/pathogens/harper_armelagos_syphilis_origin_2008.html
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Did Europeans bring syphilis to the New World, or did they catch it here and carry it back to Europe? ... Syphilis, for example, primarily left lesions on just two bones in the body: the tibia and fibula- -the bones of the lower leg. Yaws always affected more than three bones, including the hands and feet.
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discovermagazine.com/1996/oct/theoriginofsyphi912
discovermagazine.com/1996/oct/theoriginofsyphi912
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The origin of syphilis has been debated for years, really since the actual 1495 event itself. Some researchers have asserted that syphilis is present in the writings of Hippocrates, placing it squarely in the old world thousands of years prior to Columbus.
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scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/01/the_origin_of_syphil...
scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/01/the_origin_of_syphilis.php
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A new paper in PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases attempts to tackle a rather sensitive topic - the evolutionary origin of treponematoses (i.e., diseases caused by bacteria in the genus Treponema including yaws, pinta, and the one everyone wants to know about - syphilis).
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phylogenomics.blogspot.com/2008/01/syphilis-origin-solv...
phylogenomics.blogspot.com/2008/01/syphilis-origin-solved.html
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