Syphilis: The renaissance of an old disease with oral implications

Head and Neck Pathology

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 195-206

  Ficarra, Giuseppe ^a,b   Carlos, Roman ^c  

^a Reference Center for the Study of Oral Diseases   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c Centro Clinico de Cabeza y Cuello   (Guatemala)

Author keywords

Oral cavity; Syphilis; Treponema pallidum

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; MOUTH DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; REVIEW; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; COMPLICATION; MOUTH DISEASES;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; MOUTH DISEASES; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

EID: 70349210114     PISSN: 1936055X     EISSN: 19360568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12105-009-0127-0     Document Type: Review

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