African Nonhuman Primates Are Infected With The Yaws Bacterium Treponema pallidum subsp. pertenue
Sascha Knauf, Jan F. Gogarten, Verena J. Schuenemann, Hélène M. De Nys, Ariane Düx, Michal Strouhal, Lenka Mikalová, Kirsten I. Bos, Roy Armstrong, Emmanuel K. Batamuzi, Idrissa S. Chuma, Bernard Davoust, Georges Diatta, Robert D. Fyumagwa, Reuben R. Kazwala, , 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.
bioRxiv · May 10, 2017 · PreprintMicrobiology