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African Nonhuman Primates Are Infected With The Yaws Bacterium Treponema pallidum subsp. pertenue
Sascha Knauf, Jan F. Gogarten, Verena J. Schuenemann…·Sébastien Calvignac-Spencer
The paper identifies naturally occurring simian Treponema pallidum subsp. pertenue strains in African nonhuman primates, showing genomic similarity to human TPE strains.
DOI 10.1101/135491