1. Current geographical distribution of endemic treponematoses.
Current geographical distribution of endemic treponematoses. The map was designed according to epidemiological data on yaws available at and the gathered bibliography, including work by Harding (333), Bendel (334), and da Cruz-Ferreira and Sterneberg (335). *, based on a 2006 case report article describing two cases of bejel in children in Mozambique (267). **, based on an early pinta lesion identified in a female resident of Cuba visiting Austria (274). Officially, the last case of pinta in Cuba was reported in 1975.
Lorenzo Giacani, and Sheila A. Lukehart Clin. Microbiol. Rev. 2014; doi: /CMR