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<i>Treponema pallidum</i> TprD and TprK Are Adhesins and Promote Spirochetes Opsonophagocytosis

2026-01-05

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<h4>ABSTRACT</h4> Treponema pallidum subspecies pallidum ( T. pallidum ) causes systemic syphilis, exclusively infects humans in nature and can persist for decades in the absence of treatment despite generating robust adaptive immune responses. The T . p allidum r epeat (Tpr) family of outer membrane proteins are immunogenic but have been implicated in immune evasion due to antigenic variation, indicating th...

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Literature Corpus work: ee330f4f-8d6f-56a0-90b2-0d6fcb816391
DOI: 10.64898/2026.01.04.697605

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