Inflammation and immune evasion coexist in Treponema pallidum-infected skin

Rodolfo Trujillo; Jorge Cervantes; Kelly L Hawley; Adriana R Cruz; Sankhiros Babapoor; Michael Murphy; Soheil S Dadras; Juan C Salazar

doi:10.1016/j.jdcr.2018.03.011

Inflammation and immune evasion coexist in Treponema pallidum-infected skin

JAAD Case Rep. 2018 Apr 30;4(5):462-464. doi: 10.1016/j.jdcr.2018.03.011. eCollection 2018 Jun.

Authors

Rodolfo Trujillo¹, Jorge Cervantes², Kelly L Hawley^{1

3}, Adriana R Cruz⁴, Sankhiros Babapoor^{5

6}, Michael Murphy⁷, Soheil S Dadras⁷, Juan C Salazar^{1

3}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pediatrics, University of Connecticut Health, Farmington, Connecticut.
² Department of Medical Education of Texas Tech University Health Science Center, El Paso, Texas.
³ Division of Infectious Diseases, Connecticut Children's Medical Center, Farmington, Connecticut.
⁴ Centro Internacional de Entrenamiento e Investigaciones Médicas (CIDEIM), Cali, Columbia.
⁵ Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, Connecticut.
⁶ The Commonwealth Medical College, Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
⁷ Department of Dermatology, UConn Health, Farmington, Connecticut.

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Keywords: IF, immunofluorescence; SS, secondary syphilis; Treponema pallidum; penicillin; secondary syphilis; sexually transmitted disease; spirochete.

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