Human Treponema pallidum 11q/j isolate belongs to subsp. endemicum but contains two loci with a sequence in TP0548 and TP0488 similar to subsp. pertenue and subsp. pallidum, respectively

• Lenka Mikalová,

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

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• Michal Strouhal,

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

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• Jan Oppelt,

  Affiliations CEITEC–Central European Institute of Technology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, National Centre for Biomolecular Research, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

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• Philippe Alain Grange,

  Affiliation Institut Cochin U1016, Laboratoire de Dermatologie—CNR Syphilis, Faculté de Médecine, Université Sorbonne Paris Descartes, Paris, France

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• Michel Janier,

  Affiliation Centre des MST, Hôpital Saint-Louis, AP-HP, Paris, France

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• Nadjet Benhaddou,

  Affiliations Institut Cochin U1016, Laboratoire de Dermatologie—CNR Syphilis, Faculté de Médecine, Université Sorbonne Paris Descartes, Paris, France, Service de Bactériologie, Groupe Hospitalier Paris Centre Cochin-Hôtel Dieu-Broca, Paris, France

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• Nicolas Dupin,

  Affiliations Institut Cochin U1016, Laboratoire de Dermatologie—CNR Syphilis, Faculté de Médecine, Université Sorbonne Paris Descartes, Paris, France, Service de Dermatologie-Vénéréologie, Hôpital Cochin–Pavillon Tarnier, AP-HP, Paris, France

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• David Šmajs

  * E-mail: dsmajs@med.muni.cz

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

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