Yaws Disease Caused by Treponema pallidum subspecies pertenue in Wild Chimpanzee, Guinea, 2019 - Volume 26, Number 6—June 2020 - Emerging Infectious Diseases journal - CDC

Yaws Disease Caused by Treponema pallidum subspecies pertenue in Wild Chimpanzee, Guinea, 2019 - Volume 26, Number 6—June 2020 - Emerging Infectious Diseases journal - CDC

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Yaws Disease Caused by Treponema pallidum subspecies pertenue in Wild Chimpanzee, Guinea, 2019

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Benjamin Mubemba1, Emeline Chanove1, Kerstin Mätz-Rensing, Jan F. Gogarten, Ariane Düx, Kevin Merkel, Caroline Röthemeier, Andreas Sachse, Helene Rase, Tatyana Humle, Guillaume Banville, Marine Tchoubar, Sébastien Calvignac-Spencer, Christelle Colin, and Fabian H. Leendertz 

Author affiliations: Copperbelt University, Kitwe, Zambia (B. Mubemba); Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany (B. Mubemba, J.F. Gogarten, A. Düx, K. Merkel, C. Röthemeier, A. Sachse, S. Calvignac-Spencer, F.H. Leendertz); University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, Cluj-Napoca, Romania (E. Chanove); Chimpanzee Conservation Center, Somoria, Faranah, Republic of Guinea (E. Chanove, H. Rase, G. Banville, M. Tchoubar, C. Colin); Leibniz Institute for Primate Research, Göttingen, Germany (K. Mätz-Rensing); University of Kent, Canterbury, UK (T. Humle)

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Abstract

Yaws-like lesions are widely reported in wild African great apes, yet the causative agent has not been confirmed in affected animals. We describe yaws-like lesions in a wild chimpanzee in Guinea for which we demonstrate infection with Treponema pallidum subsp. pertenue. Assessing the conservation implications of this pathogen requires further research.