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ArticleScientific reports2024

Majority of Treponema pallidum ssp. pallidum MLST allelic profiles in the Czech Republic (2004-2022) belong to two SS14-like clusters.

Eliška Vrbová, Petra Pospíšilová, Eliška Dastychová, Martina Kojanová, Miluše Kreidlová, Filip Rob, Vladimír Vašků, Petra Mosio, Radim Strnadel, Olga Faustmannová and 4 more

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7 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Putative mechanisms of ocular inflammation in syphilis.Journal of ophthalmic inflammation and infection · 2026
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  5. In vitro isolation of contemporary Treponema pallidum strains directly from clinical samples of syphilis patients.Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases · 2025
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  6. Sexually TransmittedOpen forum infectious diseases · 2025
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Eliška VrbováDepartment of Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.
Petra PospíšilováDepartment of Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.
Eliška DastychováFirst Department of Dermatovenereology, St. Annes Hospital and Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.
Martina KojanováDepartment of Dermatovenereology, First Faculty of Medicine and General University Hospital, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
Miluše KreidlováInstitute of Medical Biochemistry and Laboratory Diagnostics of the General University Hospital and of the First Faculty of Medicine of Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
Filip RobDepartment of Dermatovenerology, Second Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic.
Vladimír VaškůFirst Department of Dermatovenereology, St. Annes Hospital and Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.
Petra MosioNational Reference Laboratory for Diagnostics of Syphilis, National Institute for Public Health, Prague, Czech Republic.
Radim StrnadelDepartment of Dermatovenerology, University Hospital, Brno, Czech Republic.
Olga FaustmannováDepartment of Dermatovenerology, University Hospital, Brno, Czech Republic.
Ivana KuklováDepartment of Dermatovenereology, First Faculty of Medicine and General University Hospital, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
Monika Dvořáková HeroldováDepartment of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, St. Anne's Hospital and Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.
Hana ZákouckáNational Reference Laboratory for Diagnostics of Syphilis, National Institute for Public Health, Prague, Czech Republic.
David ŠmajsDepartment of Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. dsmajs@med.muni.cz.

Funding

Prevalence of syphilis and other sexually transmitted infections in men and transgender women who have sex with men in Cali, ColombiaU19AI144177 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCH OF MED/DNT · PI RADOLF, JUSTIN D · 2019 to 2023
$11.2M
Ministerstvo Zdravotnictví Ceské Republiky 65269705National Institute of Virology and Bacteriology , Programme EXCELES LX22NPO5103NIAID NIH HHS U19 AI144177US National Institutes of Health National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Disease U19AI144177
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Syphilis is a multistage sexually transmitted disease caused by Treponema pallidum ssp. pallidum. In the Czech Republic, there are around 700-800 new syphilis cases annually, continuously increasing since 2012. This study analyzed a total of 1228 samples from 2004 to 2022. Of the PCR-positive typeable samples (n = 415), 68.7% were fully-typed (FT), and 31.3% were partially-typed. Most of the identified isolates belonged to the SS14-clade and only 6.3% were the Nichols-like cluster. While in the beginning of sample collection isolates have been macrolide-susceptible, recent isolates are completely resistant to macrolides. Among the FT samples, 34 different allelic profiles (APs) were found. Most of the profiles (n = 27) appeared just once in the Czech population, while seven profiles were detected more than twice. The most frequent APs belonged to two separate groups of SS14-like isolates, including group of 1.3.1 (ST 1) and 1.26.1 (ST 25) profiles, and the second group containing 1.1.8 (ST 3), 1.1.1 (ST 2), and 1.1.3 (ST 11) (representing 57.5%, and 25.3% of all detected APs, respectively). Both groups consistently differed in 6 nucleotide positions in five genes (TP0150, TP0324, TP0515, TP0548, and TP0691) coding amino-acid replacements suggesting that one or more of these differences could be involved in the higher success of the first group.

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AllelesMultilocus Sequence TypingSyphilisTreponema pallidumAdultCzech RepublicFemaleGenotypeHumansMacrolidesMaleMiddle AgedMacrolides

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