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Treponema pallidum (syphilis) antigen TpF1 induces angiogenesis through the activation of the IL-8 pathway
5 Jan 2016
Abstract excerpt
Over 10 million people every year become infected by Treponema pallidum and develop syphilis, a disease with broad symptomatology that, due to the difficulty to eradicate the pathogen from the highly vascularized secondary sites of infection, is still treated with injections of penicillin. Unlike most other bacterial pathogens, T. pallidum infection produces indeed a strong angiogenic response whose mechanism of...
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