The findings represent the oldest complete set of genetic information from this bacterial group and shed light on its ...
In A Nutshell Scientists discovered a 5,500-year-old form of the bacteria that causes syphilis in remains from Colombia, the ...
The discovery, led by evolutionary genomics researcher Davide Bozzi, pushes back the evidence for treponemal diseases, as ...
Scientists have recovered a genome of Treponema pallidum—the bacterium whose subspecies today are responsible for four ...
A newly sequenced genome of the bacterium that causes syphilis, Treponema pallidum, highlights the deep antiquity of treponemal diseases in the Americas. The findings, based on a 5,500-year-old ...
Analysis of a shin bone found in a rock cave in Colombia suggests the sexually transmitted disease is much older than previously believed.