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• n  the inner pale yellow part of the lenticular nucleus

• The cause of the disease is a trypanosome, brother of the trypanosome which causes human sleeping sickness and distant relative of Treponema pallidum which causes syphilis.
• Man is the only natural host of the microbes, called Treponema pallidum, but some animals, notably rabbits and monkeys, can be infected with them.
• In the blood of syphilitics, they found specific antibodies (counter-substances) against Treponema pallidum, the spirochete that causes syphilis.

• globus pallidus
• paleostriatum

News & Articles

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• Valley Views: Major initiative needed to fight tick-borne infections
  It took medical science some 500 years to gain a good understanding of syphilis. We are but 40 years into Lyme disease, a complex infection by another spirochetal organism, B. burgdorferi, more genetically complex than even the wily Treponema pallidum.
  Oct. 27, 2013 - The Journal News