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Yaws is a long-term (chronic) infection that mainly affects the skin, bones, and joints.
Alternative NamesFrambesia tropica
Causes, incidence, and risk factorsYaws is an infection caused by the spiral-shaped bacteria, Treponema pallidum, subspecies pertenue. It is closely related to the bacteria that cause syphilis, but this disease is not sexually transmitted. Yaws mainly affects children in rural, warm, tropical areas, such as the Caribbean Islands, Latin America, West Africa, India, and Southeast Asia.
Yaws is transmitted by direct contact with the skin sores of infected people.
SymptomsAbout 2 - 4 weeks after infection, the person develops a sore called a "mother yaw" where bacteria entered the skin. The sore is a growth that looks like a raspberry. It is usually painless. These sores may last for months. More sores may appear shortly before or after the mother yaw heals.
Other symptoms include:
- Bone pain
- Scarring of the skin
- Swelling of the bones and fingers
In the final stage, sores on the skin and bones can lead to severe disfigurement and disability. This occurs in up to 1 in 5 people who do not get antibiotic treatment.
Signs and testsA sample from a skin sore is examined under a special type of microscope (darkfield examination). There is no blood test for yaws. However, the blood tests for syphilis may be positive in yaws because the two conditions are closely related.
TreatmentTreatment involves a single dose of a specific type of penicillin, or or 3 weekly doses for later stage disease. It is rare for the disease to return.
Expectations (prognosis)If treated in its early stages, yaws can be cured. Skin lesions may take several months to heal.
By its late stage, yaws may have already caused damage to the skin and bones. It may not be fully reversible, even with treatment.
ComplicationsYaws may damage the skin and bones, affecting the appearance and ability to move. It can also cause deformities of the legs, nose, palate, and upper jaw.
Calling your health care providerContact your health care provider if you or your child has sores on the skin or bone that don't go away, and you have stayed in tropical areas where yaws is known to occur.
PreventionWidespread campaigns in the 1950s and 1960s to wipe out yaws through penicillin treatment have dramatically decreased the number of cases worldwide.
ReferencesHook III EW. Nonsyphilitic Treponematoses. In: Goldman L, Ausiello D, eds. Cecil Medicine. 23rd ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2007:chap 341.
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The bacteria that can cause yaws is called Treponema pallidum. Yaws is a disease that mostly affects young children in warm, tropical climates such as those in Africa and Southeast Asia.
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like when you have a cut are something then yaws gets in your cut and then it gets infected and then you have yaws . . . .
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It is estimated that around 64,000 people are infected with yaws worldwide, primarily in tropical and subtropical regions in Africa, Asia, and Oceania. Yaws is a bacterial infection that affects mainly children in low-income areas with poor sanitation and limited access to healthcare.
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Without treatment, yaws is a terribly disfiguring chronic illness. With appropriate treatment, the progression of the disease can be completely halted.
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Cecil John Hackett has written:
'Differential diagnosis of yaws' -- subject(s): Diagnosis, Yaws
'Treponematoses (yaws and treponarid) in exhumed Australian Aboriginal bones' -- subject(s): Aboriginal Australians, Bones, Diseases, History, Infections, Paleopathology, Treponematoses
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Yaws tends to strike children, particularly between the ages of two and five. It is common in areas where poverty and overcrowding interfere with good hygiene practices.
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A single penicillin injection in a muscle is sufficient to completely end the disease.
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The answer is "Yaws." It's an infectious tropical disease similar to syphilis.
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Yaws is a tropical infection of the skin, bones and joints caused by the spirochete bacterium. Other infections of this nature are Lymes Disease and Syphills. The portal of exit is once the disease has been introduced into the population, there is a need to find the process by which the causative organism leaves the body of the carrier and is transmitted to another host.
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yaws - spirochetal disease; yersinia pestis - microbe that causes the plague
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Yaws is a chronic infection. It exists widely in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. It is caused by a bacterium that affects the skin, cartilage and bones. It is spread like a cold from one person with it to anyone it comes in contact with. The infection will cause skin lesions and more will develop on the skin if not treated properly. Yaws exists mainly in children under 15 and it is known to develop in children around the ages 6-10. It can cause chronic disfigurement or disability, it may also be fatal. treatment does exist and inexpensively-- cheap medication. Benzathine Penicillin will cure it.
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by direct skin contact. It requires some kind of a scratched or insect bitten area in order for the bacteria to actually settle in and cause infection
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using a technique called dark-field microscopy. This often allows the spirochetes to be identified. They may also be identified in fluid withdrawn from swollen lymph nodes
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The area where the bacteria originally entered the skin becomes a noticeable bump (papule). The papule grows larger and develops a punched-out center (ulcer), covered with a yellow crust.
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The following is a listing of spirochetes and the diseases caused by each:
- The spirochete, Leptospira causes Leptospirosis.
- The spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi causes Lyme Disease.
- The spirochete, Borrelia recurrentis causes relapsing fever.
- The spirochete, Treponema pallidum causes syphilis.
- The spirochete, Treponema pertenue causes yaws.
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soft, gummy growths then appear on the face, arms and legs, and buttocks. These soft, tumor-like masses may grow on the soles of the feet, causing the patient to walk in an odd and characteristic fashion
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Other diseases caused by spirochetes include yaws and Lyme disease. Other infections spread by sex include chlamydia and gonorrhea. Other diseases causing genital lesions include chancroid and herpes.
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Its been told in legends that the armor of Drakath is in the Bermuda triangle. Smack dab in the middle of it. There are many monsters that prevent you from getting to it. One of the monsters is Yaws. They tear their victims to shreds. Then puts you in a big fondue. Yep well have fun getting it.
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Yaws is caused by a bacterium called Treponema pertenue.It is related to the the bacteria that causes syphilis. The Treponema are helically coiled organisms having a corkscrew-like shape. They vary in length from 5 to 20 microns and have a thickness in the range of 0.1 to 0.2 micron.
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The throttle controls the speed, the rudder yaws the aircraft to help turn it, the spoilers and ailerons roll the wings to maintain lift over the wings while turning, and the speed brake slows the aircraft beyond what the throttle can. The elevator/stabilator lifts or drops the nose.
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Yaws is a tropical infection of the skin, bones and joints caused by the spirochete bacterium. Other infections of this nature are Lymes Disease and Syphills. The portal of exit is once the disease has been introduced into the population, there is a need to find the process by which the causative organism leaves the body of the carrier and is transmitted to another host.
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Yaws is a tropical infection of the skin, bones and joints caused by the spirochete bacterium. Other infections of this nature are Lymes Disease and Syphills. The portal of exit is once the disease has been introduced into the population, there is a need to find the process by which the causative organism leaves the body of the carrier and is transmitted to another host.
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Some examples of microorganisms that begin with the letter T include Tetrahymena, Thiomargarita, and Trichodesmium. These microorganisms belong to different groups and can be found in various environments like freshwater ponds, deep-sea sediments, and marine ecosystems.
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Here are some possible words:
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Here are few words that end with the letters WS:
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If you assume both bullets are stable and flying point forward, the spinning bullet will have more drag; HOWEVER, the whole purpose of spinning the bullet is to keep it stable and point forward. If you do not do this, the bullet yaws and wobbles wildly drammatically increasing the drag.
Therefore, in actual practice, the spinning bullet has less drag because it remains stable and point forward whereas the unspun bullet is unstable and wobbles/tumbles.
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There are hyperbole when they say "They were crawling with yaws and earworms"
Another was foreshadowing when they said "The front door slammed and I hard Atticus's foot steps in the hall.
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Treponema pallidum, the bacteria that causes syphilis, enters the body through mucous membranes or breaks in the skin during sexual contact or through blood contact. It then spreads systematically through the bloodstream to various organs and tissues, causing characteristic symptoms in each stage of the disease. Syphilis can also be transmitted from mother to fetus during pregnancy or through blood transfusions.
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Nodule(s), nodular
actinomycotic (see also Actinomycosis) 039.9
arthritic - see Arthritis, nodosa
breast 793.89
cutaneous 782.2
Haygarth's 715.04
inflammatory - see Inflammation
juxta-articular 102.7
syphilitic 095.7
yaws 102.7
larynx 478.79
lung, solitary 518.89
emphysematous 492.8
milkers' 051.1
prostate 600.10
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urinary
obstruction 600.11
retention 600.11
retrocardiac 785.9
rheumatic 729.89
rheumatoid - see Arthritis rheumatoid
scrotum (inflammatory) 608.4
singers' 478.5
skin NEC 782.2
solitary, lung 518.89
emphysematous 492.8
subcutaneous 782.2
thyroid (gland) (nontoxic) (uninodular) 241.0
with
hyperthyroidism 242.1
thyrotoxicosis 242.1
toxic or with hyperthyroidism 242.1
vocal cords 478.5
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4-letter words
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The ailerons primarily control roll. Whenever lift is increased, induced drag is also increased. When the stick is moved left to bank the aircraft to the left, the right aileron is lowered which increases lift on the right wing and therefore increases induced drag on the right wing. Using ailerons causes adverse yaw, meaning the nose of the aircraft yaws in a direction opposite to the aileron application. When moving the stick to the left to bank the wings, adverse yaw moves the nose of the aircraft to the right. Adverse yaw is more pronounced for light aircraft with long wings, such as gliders. It is counteracted by the pilot with the rudder. Differential ailerons are ailerons which have been rigged such that the downgoing aileron deflects less than the upward-moving one, reducing adverse yaw. [edit]
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