The following is a summary of “Incidence and Prevalence of Syphilitic Uveitis and Associated Ocular Complications in the ...

Researchers analyzed human skeletons from archaeological sites across the Americas for evidence of treponemal diseases, a ...

An isolated burial site in far eastern Tennessee that was excavated in the 1970s has recently been reexamined by archaeologists interested in the origin and evolution of treponemal diseases ...

The origins of syphilis and the other treponemal diseases remain a mystery. Explosive syphilis outbreaks in Europe starting during the late fifteenth century led to the theory that Columbus’s ...

Serology testing continues to be an indispensable tool for the management of several disease states, especially treponemal screening to monitor syphilis infection in the US. Come to this educational ...

(The full article, “Evidence for the Presence of Treponemal Disease, Including Syphilis, in Late Medieval Europe,” appears on pages 37-87 of Vol. 7, Number 2, 2021.) Some historians have long believed ...

A comparative study of γM-fluorescent treponemal antibody (γM-FTA-ABS), routine FTA-ABS and γG-FTA-ABS, Venereal Disease Research Laboratory (VDRL) antibody levels, as well as total serum γM ...

Treponemes are a genus of spiral-shaped bacteria, some of which are responsible for treponemal infections such as syphilis Treponema pallidum pallidum [TPA]), bejel (T. pallidum endemicum [TEN ...

The origin of these diseases, known as treponemal infections, has been a source of speculation for historians for centuries—with syphilis, which is sexually transmitted, drawing particular interest.

The header for point 3 has been revised to “The first syphilis POCT licensed in Canada detects treponemal antibodies.” The first sentence of point 4 has been revised to “Treponemal POCTs cannot ...