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yaws

an infectious nonvenereal disease of tropical climates with early symptoms resembling syphilis, characterized by red skin eruptions and, later, pain in the joints: it is caused by the spiral bacterium Treponema pertenue
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yaws

[′yȯz]
(medicine)
An infectious tropical disease of humans caused by the spirochete Treponema pertenue; manifested by a primary cutaneous lesion followed by a granulomatous skin eruption.
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The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Yaws

 

a chronic and infectious spirochetal skin disease. It is common in almost all the tropical countries of North and South America, Africa, Asia, and Oceania, usually affecting the native rural population. The disease is caused by the spirochete Treponema pertenue. Infection usually occurs by contact through injured skin and is fostered by unsanitary living conditions. The symptoms of yaws are granulomatous swellings (resembling raspberries) and ulcerations of the skin; lesions of the bones, accompanied by severe pain, are not infrequent. Yaws is treated with arsenic and bismuth preparations and with antibiotics. Prophylaxis entails observance of the rules of hygiene and improvement of sanitary conditions.

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The seropositive samples from South Sulawesi and West Sulawesi Provinces were collected in July and August of 2000, immediately pre-dating an active yaws outbreak among humans in the region that caused 241 documented cases in the neighboring southeastern peninsula during 2001-2011 (WHO, http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/75528/1/ WHO_HTM_NTD_IDM_2012.2_eng.pdf) (Figure).
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