Treponema pallidum

Treponema pallidum

View the organism: Treponema spirochete under the microscope (courtesy Wadsworth Center), a clear picture of Treponema (Medical Library Uni Utah), morphology of the organism (Virtual Hospital).

Collection sites, home-pages

T. pallidum collection site (collected by M. Bak)
Collection site on syphilis ()

Fact sheets, consumer guides, general information

Syphilis: Treponema pallidum fact sheet (CDC)
Antibiotic treatment for syphilis (Pullman Washington)
What is syphilis? (Wisconsin Dept. Health)
T. pallidum: characteristics (MicroBioNet)
T. pallidum: general information (Doran and Nowadly)
Syphilis in Family Practice Notebook
General information on syphilis (Public Health Service Montreal)
Infection of the brain with pictures (Virtual Hospital)
Dark side of research history: the Tuskegee Syphilis Study (Research Practitioner)
syphilis (women's health)

Lectures

Lecture on sexually transmitted disease: syphilis (Cornell Uni)
Teaching file on syphisis (Virtual Hospital)
Teaching files: syphilis in neonates (neonatology on the web)
Syphilis in MicroTextBook

Scientific papers

Case report: oral manifestation of tertiary syphilis (Aarestrup and Vieira)
History of the treatment of syphilis (imsdoc.com)
The history of syphilis and its treatment (PageWise)
A 'granule' form of Trepanema: cysts as a cause of long-term relapse? (M. Kroun)
Screening for syphilis (U.S. Preventive Services Task Force)
Historical case: Karen Blixen (L Donelson)
Resolving the common clinical dilemmas of syphilis (Birnbaum et al)

Scientific links

Treponema pallidum complete genome sequence at NCBI, Summary of the most important genome data (bioscience.org)
T. pallidum molecular genetics server (Uni Texas)
National guideline for the management of early syphilis (Nat. guidelines Clearinghouse)

The content of this page is copyright of the Virtual Museum of Bacteria and was written by Dr. T. M. Wassenaar (curator), with support of the Foundation for Bacteriology (Dr. M.J. Blaser, President). If you have suggestions for links to add to this page, please contact us at curator@bacteriamuseum.org

Last modified: 22 Feb 2003

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