Infectious disease risk across the growing human-non human primate interface: a review of the evidence

CA Devaux, O Mediannikov, H Medkour… - Frontiers in public …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Most of the human pandemics reported to date can be classified as zoonoses. Among these,
there is a long history of infectious diseases that have spread from non-human primates …

Advancing the understanding of treponemal disease in the past and present

BJ Baker, G Crane‐Kramer, MW Dee… - American Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Syphilis was perceived to be a new disease in Europe in the late 15th century, igniting a
debate about its origin that continues today in anthropological, historical, and medical …

Genome-wide coancestry reveals details of ancient and recent male-driven reticulation in baboons

EF Sørensen, RA Harris, L Zhang, M Raveendran… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Baboons (genus Papio) are a morphologically and behaviorally diverse clade of catarrhine
monkeys that have experienced hybridization between phenotypically and genetically …

Genomic epidemiology of syphilis reveals independent emergence of macrolide resistance across multiple circulating lineages

MA Beale, M Marks, SK Sahi, LC Tantalo… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Syphilis is a sexually transmitted infection caused by Treponema pallidum subspecies
pallidum and may lead to severe complications. Recent years have seen striking increases …

A treponemal genome from an historic plague victim supports a recent emergence of yaws and its presence in 15th century Europe

K Giffin, AK Lankapalli, S Sabin, MA Spyrou, C Posth… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Developments in techniques for identification of pathogen DNA in archaeological samples
can expand our resolution of disease detection. Our application of a non-targeted molecular …

Clonal isolates of Treponema pallidum subsp. pallidum Nichols provide evidence for the occurrence of microevolution during experimental rabbit infection and in vitro …

DG Edmondson, BD De Lay, BM Hanson, LE Kowis… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
The recent development of a system for long-term in vitro culture of the syphilis spirochete,
Treponema pallidum subsp. pallidum, has introduced the possibility of detailed genetic …

[HTML][HTML] Neglected tropical diseases: elimination and eradication

C Bodimeade, M Marks, D Mabey - Clinical Medicine, 2019 - Elsevier
The term neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) describes a disparate group of diseases which
affect populations living in poverty and are important causes of morbidity and mortality …

Directly sequenced genomes of contemporary strains of syphilis reveal recombination-driven diversity in genes encoding predicted surface-exposed antigens

L Grillová, J Oppelt, L Mikalová, M Nováková… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Syphilis, caused by Treponema pallidum subsp. pallidum (TPA), remains an important
public health problem with an increasing worldwide prevalence. Despite recent advances in …

Genetics of human and animal uncultivable treponemal pathogens

D Šmajs, M Strouhal, S Knauf - Infection, Genetics and Evolution, 2018 - Elsevier
Treponema pallidum is an uncultivable bacterium and the causative agent of syphilis
(subsp. pallidum [TPA]), human yaws (subsp. pertenue [TPE]), and bejel (subsp …

Comparison of target enrichment strategies for ancient pathogen DNA

A Furtwängler, J Neukamm, L Böhme, E Reiter… - …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
In ancient DNA research, the degraded nature of the samples generally results in poor
yields of highly fragmented DNA; targeted DNA enrichment is thus required to maximize …