A team of scientists has used state-of-the-art technology to elucidate the molecular architecture of Treponema pallidum, the bacterium which causes syphilis. The previously unknown detailed structure ...
Ancient DNA from a 5,500-year-old skeleton in Colombia reveals the oldest genome of "Treponema pallidum" yet, sharpening ...
Treponema pallidum, a microorganism that can cause a deadly sexually transmitted disease in humans, may have a far more ancient lineage than scientists once thought ...
The findings represent the oldest complete set of genetic information from this bacterial group and shed light on its ...
And this means we might have been thinking about the origins of syphilis in an entirely wrong way. While the French ...
The new information pushes the presence of the bacterium Treponema pallidum back at least 3,000 years from what was ...
New genetic evidence shows that infectious diseases began to develop in America thousands of years before contact with Europe ...
The evolutionary history and origin of syphilis, and other treponemal diseases, is a hotly debated topic by scholars. Scholars who theorize syphilis originated in the "New World" and preceded the 15th ...
Yaws is considered a neglected tropical disease caused by the bacterium Treponema pertenue, a subspecies of Treponema pallidum that causes venereal syphillis. However, Yaws is a non-venereal disease ...