Yaws Epidemiology

Yaws is a tropical infection of the skin, bones, and joints caused by the spirochete bacterium Treponema pallidum pertenue. The disease begins with a round...

non-cancerous growth resulting from the tertiary stage of syphilis (and yaws). It is a form of granuloma. Gummas are most commonly found in the liver...

four ongoing programs, targeting the human diseases poliomyelitis (polio), yaws, dracunculiasis (Guinea worm), and malaria. Five more infectious diseases...

Cutaneous leishmaniasis is the most common form of leishmaniasis affecting humans. It is a skin infection caused by a single-celled parasite that is transmitted...

PMID 29428183. Mitja, O; Marks, M; Konan, DPJ; et al. (2015). ""Global epidemiology of yaws " a systematic review". Lancet Global Health. 3 (6): e324–331. doi:10...

by spiral-shaped bacteria called treponemes), a group that also includes yaws and pinta. Typically, endemic trepanematoses begin with localized lesions...

rumors of yaws through 2011. In May 2016 the World Health Organization declared India free of yaws. India was the first country where yaws was endemic...

congenital syphilis. Other diseases caused by Treponema bacteria include yaws (T. pallidum subspecies pertenue), pinta (T. carateum), and nonvenereal endemic...

syphilis, a sexually transmitted disease of adults. The others are bejel, yaws, and pinta, endemic childhood diseases that are usually not fatal, if still...

and leishmaniasis); (ii) bacteria (Buruli ulcer, leprosy, trachoma, and yaws), (iii) helminths or metazoan worms (cysticercosis/taeniasis, dracunculiasis...

Treat, James R.; Rosenbach, Misha A.; Neuhaus, Isaac (2020). "18. Syphilis, Yaws, Bejel, and Pinta". Andrews' Diseases of the Skin: Clinical Dermatology (13th ed...

Specifically it is used to treat strep throat, diphtheria, syphilis, and yaws. It is also used to prevent rheumatic fever. It is given by injection into...

(Eradication of malaria) Yaws (Eradication of yaws) Underway (regional) Hookworm Lymphatic filariasis Measles vaccine epidemiology Rubella Trachoma Onchocerciasis...

scrapings. Differential diagnosis includes Addison's disease, syphilis, pinta, yaws, melanoma, lentigines, lichen planus of the palms, and junctional melanocytes...

with the fly's faeces. The house fly cause the spread of yaws germs by carrying them from a yaws ulcer to an ordinary sore. Houseflies also transmit poliomyelitis...

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). ISBN 978-0990449119. "Yaws". www.who.int. Retrieved 2023-06-16. Cullen, P. A.; Cameron, C. E. (2006)...

schemes for yaws: the path toward eradication". Clinical Infectious Diseases. 55 (3): 406–412. doi:10.1093/cid/cis444. PMID 22610931. "Yaws Fact sheet...

requiring intravenous injections. They concluded that trypanosomiasis, leprosy, yaws, and syphilis were responsible for most intravenous injections. Schistosomiasis...

as a distinct entity and believed it to be a consequence of "suppressed yaws". Ainhum was first recognized as a distinct disease and described as such...

enlarged lymph node. Skin ulcers can resemble those caused by leishmaniasis, yaws, squamous cell carcinoma, Haemophilus ducreyi infection, and tissue death...