Nodules and ulcers have a characteristic granular surface and often exude a yellow discharge that may dry to form a crust. The initial papule increases in diameter (3-5 cm) to become a large nodule that can ulcerate. Primary Lesions: After 9 to 90 days, the initial lesion (‘mother yaw’) manifests as one or more non tender papules.
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Yaws is a chronic disease of the skin and bone ( Figure 1). Like syphilis, these diseases undergo sequential clinical stages following inoculation. In the Central American countries of Nicaragua and Guatemala, afflicted individuals are called morados, which means "the blue ones". The word pinta means "spot" or "mark" in Spanish synonyms for this disease include carate, cute, enfermedad azul ( 18). Occurrence of pinta outside the Americas is controversial. Countries with historically high prevalence include Columbia, Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela, and Brazil ( 18). Pinta might remain endemic in Central and South America and Mexico. Data on the prevalence of pinta are limited and there is the perception that the disease had sustained decline over the past century. Prolonged close personal contact is required for transmission and it is thought to occur frequently within families. Pinta is seen in early to late adulthood. Bejel is known most commonly as endemic syphilis, but is also called njovera or dichuchwa in Africa and belesh, bishel, firjal and loath in the Middle East. Bejel was once common in Eastern Europe, but it is now extremely rare in this area ( 37). It is seen in nomads in Saudi Arabia and in the immediate sub-Saharan region of Africa (Sahel) ( 8). Bejel occurs primarily in dry, arid areas. Bejelīejel predominantly occurs in children less than 15 years of age and it is acquired by direct skin-to-skin or mouth-to-mouth contact, and by indirect contact through contaminated drinking vessels and pipes. Yaws goes under many local names, including frambesia tropica (German), pian (French), buba (Spanish), bouba (African dialects), and parangi and paru (Malay). Both India and Ecuador have reported eliminating yaws in recent years. In another eight countries transmission occurs in focal communities. Most yaws cases are concentrated in just three countries: from 2008 – 2014 Ghana, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands reported more than 15,000 cases annually each. There are a further 76 countries that previously reported yaws, throughout Africa, the Americas, Asia and the Pacific, for which adequate up to date surveillance data are not currently available.
The disease is now thought to be endemic in at least twelve countries in West Africa, South-East Asia and the Pacific ( 27). Yaws occurs primarily in rural settings in hot and humid environments. Transmission may be facilitated by a breach in the skin of the recipient, such a scratch or insect bite. Yaws is most commonly seen in children 5 to 15 years of age and it is transmitted by direct skin-to-skin contact with infectious lesions. The frequency and ease of international air travel may facilitate migration of infected persons into nonendemic geographic areas ( 12). Nonetheless, poverty, overcrowding, poor hygiene, lack of local surveillance, and absence of funding for ongoing control measures all contributed to a resurgence of endemic treponematoses, particularly yaws ( 11, 35). The number of endemic treponematoses cases was reduced from an estimated 50 million in 1952 to 2.5 million in 1964 ( 3, 5).
In the 1950s and 1960s, mass screening and treatment campaigns designed to eradicate these diseases were led by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). Epidemiologyįrom a global perspective, the nonvenereal treponematoses constitute a significant cause of morbidity in many developing countries. The phylogenetic relationship between different sub-species of treponemes is not clear, as very few isolates of the non-venereal subspecies are available ( Table 1). pallidum pertenue differs by only 0.2% from that of T. Whole-genome sequencing has demonstrated that the genome of T. The four pathogenic treponemes are morphologically and serologically indistinguishable, and share at least 99% DNA sequence homology. They are rapidly killed by drying, oxygen exposure or heating, and cannot survive outside the mammalian host ( 24). They divide slowly (every 30 hours), have a characteristic corkscrew like motility, and can move through gel-like environments such as connective tissue. Treponemes are gram-negative spirochetes which cannot be cultured in vitro.
pallidum, the endemic treponematoses are not sexually transmitted. Unlike syphilis, which is caused by the almost identical T. The endemic treponematoses include yaws ( Treponema pallidum subsp.
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