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Showing posts with label Treponema. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Treponema. Show all posts
Friday, June 22, 2012

Looking for the syphilis spirochete in ancient bones

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PCR is a powerful tool that has been used to detect microbial DNA in human remains unearthed by archaeologists.  This approach has helped re...
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Monday, August 29, 2011

BAM! A rare outer membrane protein of the stealth pathogen Treponema pallidum hidden in plain sight

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Our immune system is capable of generating antibody against bacterial proteins located inside and outside of the bacterial cell.  However on...
Tuesday, February 15, 2011

The quest for outer membrane proteins of the stealth pathogen Treponema pallidum: the cliffhanger episode

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Syphilis patients are able to generate antibodies against the spirochete Treponema pallidum .  However, if you were to mix sera from these p...
Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Congenital syphilis, upward trend (again) in the United States

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Syphilis can be deadly if passed from an infected mother to her unborn child. The most recent CDC data show that 6.5% of U.S. infants with c...
Thursday, October 8, 2009

Baby steps towards unraveling transcriptional regulation in the unculturable syphilis spirochete

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I would never select Treponema pallidum as my experimental model if I had to study gene regulation in a spirochete. The main problem is th...
Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Does male circumcision protect against syphilis?

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Circumcision has been shown to reduce the risk of men contracting several sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Three randomized controll...
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Sunday, January 18, 2009

The origin of syphilis: a phylogenetic approach

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K.N. Harper, P.S. Ocampo, B.M. Steiner, R.W. George, M.S. Silverman, S. Bolotin, A. Pillay, N.J. Saunders, and G.J. Armelagos. (2008). On t...