Ancient DNA from a 5,500-year-old skeleton in Colombia reveals the oldest genome of "Treponema pallidum" yet, sharpening ...

“Our results push back the association of T. pallidum with humans by thousands of years, possibly more than 10,000 years ago ...

Syphilis has long played a role in human history: some think that notable figures like Dracula author Bram Stoker and Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin had the disease. And scientists know that the ...

Syphilis is a sexually transmitted disease that is caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum. How is the disease spread? Syphilis is spread in only one of two ways: through sexual activity, or in the ...

And this means we might have been thinking about the origins of syphilis in an entirely wrong way. While the French ...

ONE of the most popular misconceptions of the medical profession is that the primary lesion of syphilis is always single. In fact, many physicians have been known to eliminate syphilis as a part of ...

The resurgence of syphilis in high income countries, after low incidence for the past two decades, has left many doctors unfamiliar with the many manifestations of the disease. This recent resurgence ...

There’s nothing quite like syphilis. The sexually transmitted bug that sullied Christopher Columbus’ journey either to the New World or his return back to the Old – we’re still debating this grand ...