New Tools for Syphilis Research

Syphilis research has been severely limited by the necessity to propagate Treponema pallidumin vivo in rabbits. After decades of erroneous or irreproducible reports of cultivation of T. pallidum, the recent very convincing report of its successful long-term in vitro propagation opens numerous opport...

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Main Author: Sheila A. Lukehart
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2018-07-01
Series:mBio
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.01417-18