How do you cure yaw?
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Yaws is cured with a single oral dose of an inexpensive antibiotic called azithromycin. Yaws was one of the first diseases targeted for eradication in the 1950s.
What causes bejel?
Causes. Bejel is a rare infectious disease caused by a spiral-shaped bacterium (spirochete), known as Treponema pallidum endemicum.
What is YWAS?
Yaws is a tropical infection of the skin, bones, and joints caused by the spirochete bacterium Treponema pallidum pertenue. The disease begins with a round, hard swelling of the skin, 2 to 5 cm (0.79 to 1.97 in) in diameter.
What does yaws look like?
Symptoms of yaws include: A single, itchy, raspberry-like growth (mother yaw) on the skin, usually on the legs or buttocks, which eventually develops a thin, yellow crust. Swollen lymph nodes (swollen glands) A rash that forms a brown crust.
What is yaw infection?
Yaws is a chronic skin infection characterized by papillomas (noncancerous lumps) and ulcers. It is caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum subspecies pertenue, which belongs to the same group of bacteria that causes venereal syphilis.
What is Paru disease?
Yaws is a common chronic infectious disease that occurs mainly in warm humid regions such as the tropical areas of Africa, Asia, South and Central Americas, plus the Pacific Islands. The disease has many names (for example, pian, parangi, paru, frambesia tropica).
What is the difference between yaws and syphilis?
Syphilis is usually transmitted sexually and now has a global distribution. Yaws is characteristically an infection acquired during childhood through skin contact in remote regions of Africa, South Asia, and the Western Pacific islands.
How is endemic syphilis treated?
One oral dose of azithromycin (30 mg/kg, not to exceed 2 g) is now recommended as equivalent to benzathine benzylpenicillin. Because of the ease of administration and low cost, it is now considered the drug of first choice. Yaws, pinta, and endemic syphilis may also be treated with benzathine penicillin G.
What is yaws and pinta?
Yaws causes skin sores and disfiguring growths on the legs and around the nose and mouth. Pinta causes itchy, thickened, discolored patches on the skin. Doctors diagnose these infections when people have typical symptoms and have spent time in areas where the infections are common.
Is yaws and syphilis the same?
Yaws is a chronic tropical skin infection that may also infect bones in its late stages. Yaws is caused by a spiral-shaped bacterium (spiroch(a)ete), Treponema pallidum pertenue. Yaws belongs to the same family of bacteria as syphilis, Treponema pallidum pallidum.