Treponematosis: Past, Present, and Future

A Companion to Paleopathology

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 472-491

  Collins, Della ^a   Powell, Mary Lucas ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Congenital infection, high fetal perinatal mortality miscarriages; Hackett's model of four syndromes, standard view of treponematoses; Human hosts, no natural immunity to pathogenic treponemes; Paleopathologists, clinical literature on treponemal, prior to antibiotics; Pathological changes by treponemal syndromes; Pinta's three features, in the context of paleopathology; The four syndromes, by pathogenic bacterium, Treponema pallidum; Theories of evolution of the treponematoses; Treponematosis, past, present, and future; Yaws, treponemal disease common to the tropics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873915733     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444345940.ch26     Document Type: Chapter

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