Disease or Syndrome
yaws
yaws [ yawz ]
Subclass of:
Skin Diseases, Bacterial;
Treponemal Infections
Definitions related to yaws:
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A systemic non-venereal infection of the tropics caused by TREPONEMA PALLIDUM subspecies pertenue.NLM Medical Subject HeadingsU.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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An endemic, infectious, nonvenereal disease in humans that presents mainly in children younger than 15 years. The disease occurs primarily in warm, humid, tropical areas of Africa, Asia, South America, and Oceania, among poor rural populations where conditions of overcrowding and poor sanitation prevail. Infection with Treponema pertenue, a subspecies of Treponema pallidum, causes the disease.NCI ThesaurusU.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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Tropical systemic non-venereal infection caused by Treponema pallidum subspecies pertenue.CRISP ThesaurusNational Institutes of Health, 2006
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Yaws is the most prevalent infectious, nonvenereal treponemal disease and is caused by Treponema pallidum pertenue. Yaws, endemic syphilis (bejel), and pinta collectively constitute the endemic treponematoses.WebMD, 2019
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Yaws, contagious disease occurring in moist tropical regions throughout the world. It is caused by a spirochete, Treponema pertenue, that is structurally indistinguishable from T. pallidum, which causes syphilis. Some syphilologists contend that yaws is merely a tropical rural form of syphilis, but...Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 2020
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