treponemal

Skeletal evidence for tuberculosis and treponemal infection — forms of syphilis and yaws — have been found throughout the Americas, including Mexico. 12 Whether or not this included venereal syphilis is still one of the most widely debated subjects in medical historiography, and one that I explore later in this chapter.

Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

Another theory complicating this debate is one that holds that treponemal diseases had long been present in the Old World prior to the epidemic, although not in the form of a venereal disease.

Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

Precontact skeletons showing syphilitic damage have been identified by paleopathologists, bolstering the argument that treponemal diseases, including syphilis, existed in New World populations.

Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

Fluorescent treponemal antibody absorption FTA-ABS test

Getting Pregnant Niels H. Lauersen 2000

To establish criteria for distinguishing among the three diseases based on skeletal changes the Rothschilds analyzed a North American collection of skeletons for syphilis cases (diagnosed at autopsy), a collection from Guam predating 1668 for yaws (the only treponemal disease on the island before then), and early historic Near Eastern Bedouin for bejel (bejel is endemic to the region).

Origins of Syphilis 1997

"The skull lesions are unlike those of treponemal disease (e.g., congenital syphilis) and the dramatic forearm calcification is unlike anything we have previously witnessed in over 500 cases of adult syphilis, nor in the periosteal reaction that characterizes yaws and bejel -- disorders in which children (though probably not fetuses) are frequently affected."

Origins of Syphilis 1997

The standard syphilis tests, usually either the Rapid Plasma Reagin (RPR) or Venereal Disease Research Laboratory (VDRL), followed by a more specific treponemal confirmatory (EIA) assay, keep the patient waiting two weeks for results.

THE MEDICAL NEWS 2009

The standard syphilis tests, usually either the Rapid Plasma Reagin (RPR) or Venereal Disease Research Laboratory (VDRL), followed by a more specific treponemal confirmatory (EIA) assay, keep the patient waiting two weeks for results.

THE MEDICAL NEWS 2009

Visuwell reagin, a non-treponemal enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for the serodiagnosis of syphilis

MyLinkVault Newest Links 2008

"Composite results of syphilis testing algorithms using treponemal tests for initial screening and likely interpretations"

Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008

More importantly, say scientists, the ancient genomes push back the origins of Treponema pallidum, which causes syphilis and other ‘treponemal’ diseases, by thousands of years.

Syphilis microbe’s family has plagued humans for millennia Ewen Callaway 2024