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. 2018 Sep 19;7(1):157.
doi: 10.1038/s41426-018-0156-4.

Nonhuman primates across sub-Saharan Africa are infected with the yaws bacterium Treponema pallidum subsp. pertenue

Sascha Knauf  1 , Jan F Gogarten  2   3   4 , Verena J Schuenemann  5   6 , Hélène M De Nys  2   7 , Ariane Düx  2   8 , Michal Strouhal  9 , Lenka Mikalová  9 , Kirsten I Bos  10 , Roy Armstrong  11 , Emmanuel K Batamuzi  12 , Idrissa S Chuma  13 , Bernard Davoust  14 , Georges Diatta  15 , Robert D Fyumagwa  16 , Reuben R Kazwala  17 , Julius D Keyyu  16 , Inyasi A V Lejora  13 , Anthony Levasseur  14 , Hsi Liu  18 , Michael A Mayhew  11 , Oleg Mediannikov  14 , Didier Raoult  14   15 , Roman M Wittig  3   19 , Christian Roos  20 , Fabian H Leendertz  2 , David Šmajs  21 , Kay Nieselt  22 , Johannes Krause  23   24 , Sébastien Calvignac-Spencer  25   26
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Nonhuman primates across sub-Saharan Africa are infected with the yaws bacterium Treponema pallidum subsp. pertenue

Sascha Knauf et al. Emerg Microbes Infect. .
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The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

Figures

Fig. 1
Fig. 1. Phylogenomic analysis of NHP- and human-infecting Treponema pallidum strains.
NHP-infecting Treponema pallidum strains are indicated in bold. In this maximum likelihood tree, nodes with less than 95% bootstrap approximation support are indicated with gray lines. Tip labels indicate the NHP species sampled, the country of origin, and the sample ID. The scale is in nucleotide substitutions per site. The inset is a map of Africa showing the sites of origin of NHP samples from which a TP genome was determined (indicated with black circles). The 2013 yaws status of countries, based on the World Health Organization’s Global Health Observatory (http://www.who.int/gho/en/), are indicated by color: gray indicates no previous history of yaws infections in humans, yellow indicates a country previously endemic for yaws for which the current status is unknown, and red indicates countries that are currently considered endemic for yaws
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