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Diagnostic Methods Used in Detecting Syphilis in Paleopathological Research — a Literature Review

2025-03-21

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Syphilis is a disease caused by Treponema pallidum. It is primarily transmitted sexually or vertically during pregnancy. The origin is twofold, namely it comes from America or Europe. Syphilis was first recorded in human skeleton in the 11th century. However, signs of treponemal disease were observed in osteological material from Pleistocene bear. Hence, it is necessary to study syphilis on bone material to better...

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Literature Corpus work: 42a00361-3bd1-51fb-bf1e-5390360eabed
DOI: 10.20944/preprints202503.1550.v1

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