Introduction Maternal and child mortality has markedly decreased worldwide over the past few decades. Despite this success, the decline remains unequal across countries and is overall insufficient to ...

Scientists have recovered a genome of Treponema pallidum—the bacterium whose subspecies today are responsible for four ...

A programme to detect sexually transmitted infections (STIs) including HIV and syphilis has helped hundreds of patients who may have otherwise gone untreated. In January 2024, the emergency department ...

A newly sequenced genome of the bacterium that causes syphilis, Treponema pallidum, highlights the deep antiquity of treponemal diseases in the Americas. The findings, based on a 5,500-year-old ...

After five confirmed cases of local babies born with syphilis, and a syphilis-related fetal death in 2008, Pima County health officials are urging doctors to step up screening for the sexually ...

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