Molecular investigation of Treponema pallidum strains associated with ocular syphilis in the United States, 2016–2020

Molecular investigation of Treponema pallidum strains associated with ocular syphilis in the United States, 2016–2020

ABSTRACT Ocular syphilis is a serious complication of Treponema pallidum infection that can occur at any stage of syphilis and affect any eye structure. It remains unknown if certain T. pallidum strains are associated with ocular infections; therefore, we performed genotyping and whole genome sequen...

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Main Authors: Allan Pillay, Kendra Vilfort, Alyssa Debra, Samantha S. Katz, Charles M. Thurlow, Sandeep J. Joseph, Stephanie Lundy, Andrew Ji, Hong Jaeyoung, Kimberly A. Workowski, Roxanne Y. Barrow, Damien Danavall, Kevin Pettus, Kai-Hua Chi, Ellen N. Kersh, Weiping Cao, Cheng Y. Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2024-10-01
Series:Microbiology Spectrum
Subjects:
ocular syphilis
Treponema pallidum subsp. pallidum
PCR
typing
multilocus sequence typing
United States
Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/spectrum.00581-24

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