Other human diseases caused by related bacteria include yaws, pinta, and bejel.
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Bejel is also known by a variety of other names, including belesh, dichuchwa, endemic syphilis, nonvenereal syphilis, frenga, njovera, skerljevo, siti, or treponematosis-bejel type.
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Bejel is also known by a variety of other names, including belesh, dichuchwa, endemic syphilis, nonvenereal syphilis, frenga, njovera, skerljevo, siti, or treponematosis-bejel type.
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"I think a very plausible case can be made for it being syphilis, " said Ortner, who said it also was possible it may have been yaws or bejel, related diseases that are not spread by sexual contact.