In A Nutshell Scientists discovered a 5,500-year-old form of the bacteria that causes syphilis in remains from Colombia, the ...
Scientists have recovered a genome of Treponema pallidum—the bacterium whose subspecies today are responsible for four ...
What began as a study of human population history quickly evolved into a groundbreaking ...
A previously unknown strain of syphilis bacteria has been discovered in human remains in Colombia, dating back 5,500 years. The ancient sample is more than 3,000 years older than the earliest known ...
The first known outbreak of syphilis in Europe began at the turn of the 16th century, but on the distant continent of South ...
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 ...
Learn how ancient DNA from human remains revealed that syphilis circulated in the Americas thousands of years earlier than ...
“Our results push back the association of T. pallidum with humans by thousands of years, possibly more than 10,000 years ago ...
Scientists recover DNA from a 5,500-year-old burial in Colombia, revealing ancient syphilis-related bacteria and reshaping disease history.
Rates of syphilis infection, once hampered by the discovery of penicillin, have been rising in recent years. Researchers recently linked the increase in modern syphilis cases to a pandemic, antibiotic ...
Health authorities in Barbados are reporting an increase in cases of syphilis in the country and are urging people to take ...