Laboratory-Confirmed Case of Yaws in a 10-Year-Old Boy from the Republic of the Congo
- 1 November 2011
- journal article
- case report
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Clinical Microbiology
- Vol. 49 (11), 4013-4015
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.01121-11
Abstract
We report a case of yaws in a patient with puritic cutaneous eruption who was initially suspected of infection with monkeypox. The diagnosis was established by real-time PCR and sequencing of specific treponemal DNA sequences. This is the first report describing the use of DNA sequencing to identify Treponema pallidum subsp. pertenue -specific sequences in a patient with active yaws.Keywords
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