The treponematoses as a world problem.

World health and treponematoses.

Treponematoses: A World Problem

C. T. R. Wilson first began his investigations into clouds, which culminated with the discovery of the cloud chamber, because of his interest in the optical phenomena seen in the mists surrounding Ben Vevis in Scotland. Such touches bring home the fact that physics has as warm and as human a history as any of man's endeavors and not the cold barrenness envisioned by many. The book can be recomm...

Rheumatic diseases in the ancient Americas: the skeletal manifestations of treponematoses.

INTRODUCTION The effect of rheumatic and infectious diseases on skeletal remains provides an important source of information for knowledge of contemporary medicine. Few pathologic conditions have attracted so much interest as treponematoses. One of these, syphilis, was the most feared venereal disease throughout the civilized world until the introduction of penicillin in the 20th century. OBJ...

Evolutionary cycle of the treponematoses.

The term "treponematoses" includes yaws, pinta, and endemic and venereal syphilis under their many different local names throughout the world. Yaws, a non-venereal contagious disease particularly of childhood, is estimated to affect many millions of persons living between the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn. The incidence of infectious yaws has been markedly reduced in recent years by the W.H.O...

Implications of the Reported Finding of Treponemes of Little or No Virulence after the Treatment of Syphilis with Penicillin.

The need for renewal of interest in treponematoses research has been pointed out from various sources in the last decade. Attention has repeatedly been drawn to the need for long-term studies on the survival and infectivity of treponemes in the body and their position in latency and other stages of infection, and in sero-reactive treated cases. This aspect was particularly emphasized by the Exp...