The new information pushes the presence of the bacterium Treponema pallidum back at least 3,000 years from what was ...
The findings represent the oldest complete set of genetic information from this bacterial group and shed light on its ...
And this means we might have been thinking about the origins of syphilis in an entirely wrong way. While the French ...
New genetic evidence shows that infectious diseases began to develop in America thousands of years before contact with Europe ...
An ancient DNA analysis of a 5,500-year-old human skeleton reveals that an ancestor of the bacterium that causes syphilis was ...
Treponema pallidum, a microorganism that can cause a deadly sexually transmitted disease in humans, may have a far more ancient lineage than scientists once thought ...
Scientists have recovered a genome of Treponema pallidum—the bacterium whose subspecies today are responsible for four ...
The discovery, led by evolutionary genomics researcher Davide Bozzi, pushes back the evidence for treponemal diseases, as ...
What began as a study of human population history quickly evolved into a groundbreaking ...
A team of scientists has used state-of-the-art technology to elucidate the molecular architecture of Treponema pallidum, the bacterium which causes syphilis. The previously unknown detailed structure ...