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eMedicine - Yaws : Article by Natalie C Klein, MD, PhD

http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic2431.htm

Yaws - Yaws is a contagious, nonvenereal, treponemal infection in humans that presents mainly in children younger than 15 years. Infection with Treponema pertenue, a subspecies of Treponema pallidum, causes the disease. 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 ...

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