Treponema pallidum Infection in the Wild Baboons of East Africa: Distribution and Genetic Characterization of the Strains Responsible

• Kristin N. Harper ,

  * E-mail: kh2383@columbia.edu

  Affiliation Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Robert D. Fyumagwa,

  Affiliation Wildlife Veterinary Program, Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute, Arusha, Tanzania

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• Richard Hoare,

  Affiliation Wildlife Veterinary Program, Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute, Arusha, Tanzania

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• Philemon N. Wambura,

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania

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• Dorian H. Coppenhaver,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

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• Robert M. Sapolsky,

  Affiliations Biological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, Institute of Primate Research, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya

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• Susan C. Alberts,

  Affiliations Institute of Primate Research, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya, Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Jenny Tung,

  Affiliations Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Population Research Institute, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Jeffrey Rogers,

  Affiliation Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Morris Kilewo,

  Affiliation Department of Ecology, Tanzania National Parks, Arusha, Tanzania

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• Emmanuel K. Batamuzi,

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Surgery and Theriogenology, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania

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• Fabian H. Leendertz,

  Affiliation Research Group Emerging Zoonoses, Robert Koch-Institute, Berlin, Germany

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• George J. Armelagos,

  Affiliation Department of Anthropology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Sascha Knauf

  Affiliation Pathology Unit, German Primate Centre, Leibniz Institute for Primate Research, Göttingen, Germany

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