Yaws is a chronic infectious disease caused by Treponema pallidum subspecies pertenue, a gram-negative bacterium that is genetically closely related to the less common nonvenereal endemic treponematoses, bejel and pinta, and T. pallidum subspecies pallidum, the causative agent of syphilis. As one of the 17 neglected tropical diseases that the World Health Organization (WHO) has classified as disproportionately affecting economically disadvantaged populations, yaws was added to the list of those endorsed for global eradication by a 2013 resolution of the World Health Assembly (WHA66.12).
BT - The New England journal of medicine C1 -http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25693007?dopt=Abstract
DO - 10.1056/NEJMp1415346 IS - 8 J2 - N. Engl. J. Med. LA - eng N2 -Yaws is a chronic infectious disease caused by Treponema pallidum subspecies pertenue, a gram-negative bacterium that is genetically closely related to the less common nonvenereal endemic treponematoses, bejel and pinta, and T. pallidum subspecies pallidum, the causative agent of syphilis. As one of the 17 neglected tropical diseases that the World Health Organization (WHO) has classified as disproportionately affecting economically disadvantaged populations, yaws was added to the list of those endorsed for global eradication by a 2013 resolution of the World Health Assembly (WHA66.12).
PY - 2015 SP - p . 693 EP - 695 T2 - The New England journal of medicine TI - Yaws eradication - a goal finally within reach. UR - http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1415346 VL - 372 SN - 1533-4406 ER -