Affiliation:
1. Wadsworth Center for Laboratories and Research, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York,1 and
2. Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Baylor College of Medicine and Syphilis Research Laboratory, Veterans Administration Medical Center, Houston, Texas2
Abstract
ABSTRACT
The present study described the susceptibility of C4D guinea pigs to cutaneous infection with
Treponema pallidum
subsp.
pertenue
Haiti B strain. The general manifestations of the disease in adults and neonates differ, to a certain degree, from those induced by
T. pallidum
subsp.
pallidum
Nichols strain. Noticeable differences between the infections were reflected in the character of the skin lesions, their onset and persistence, and the kinetics of the humoral response. The incidence and dissemination of cutaneous yaws lesions in very young guinea pigs were remarkably different from the low frequency observed in a similar age group of syphilis infection, 100 versus 17%, respectively. Moreover, as opposed to
T. pallidum
subsp.
pallidum
,
T. pallidum
subsp.
pertenue
does not cross the placenta. Offspring born to yaws-infected mothers did not produce immunoglobulin M antibodies and their organs, examined by PCR and rabbit infectivity test (RIT), were all negative. Examination of a large number of tissues and organs in adult, neonate, and maternal yaws by PCR and RIT clearly demonstrated that, unlike syphilis, there was a low incidence and short persistence of the yaws pathogen in internal organs. These findings stress the dermotropic rather than the organotropic character of yaws and provide further evidence of distinctive biological and pathological differences between yaws and venereal syphilis.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Infectious Diseases,Immunology,Microbiology,Parasitology
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