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Re-emergence of syphilis traced to pandemic strain cluster



DATE: 5/12/2016
SOURCE: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/12/161205110911.htm

Over the last few decades, an age-old infectious disease has been re-emerging globally: syphilis. Using techniques to analyze low levels of DNA, an international research team has now shown that all syphilis strains from modern patient samples share a common ancestor from the 1700s. Furthermore, their research demonstrates that strains dominating infections today originate from a pandemic cluster that emerged after 1950, and these strains share a worrying trait: resistance to the second-line antibiotic azithromycin.

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