Treponematosis is a term used to individually describe any of the diseases caused by four members of the bacterial genus Treponema.
The four diseases are collectively referred to as treponematoses:[1] Traditional laboratory tests cannot distinguish the treponematoses.
[2] However, sequence differences among the T. pallidum subspecies have been identified.
Molecular approaches involving PCR to identify these sequences are being developed.
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