Topical treatment with gallium maltolate reduces Treponema pallidum subsp. pertenue burden in primary experimental lesions in a rabbit model of yaws

• Lorenzo Giacani ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: giacal@u.washington.edu

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America, Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3889-7274

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• Lawrence R. Bernstein,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Innovation to End Neglected Diseases (IT-ENDs), East Palo Alto, CA, United States of America, Gallixa LLC, Menlo Park, CA, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1783-5410

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• Austin M. Haynes,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America

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• B. Charmie Godornes,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America

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• Giulia Ciccarese,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Health Sciences Department, Section of Dermatology, San Martino University Hospital, Genoa, Italy

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• Francesco Drago,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Health Sciences Department, Section of Dermatology, San Martino University Hospital, Genoa, Italy

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• Aurora Parodi,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Health Sciences Department, Section of Dermatology, San Martino University Hospital, Genoa, Italy

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• Sefora Valdevit,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Azienda Sanitaria 3 Genovese, Genoa, Italy

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• Luca Anselmi,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Azienda Sanitaria 3 Genovese, Genoa, Italy

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• Carlo Francesco Tomasini,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Medical Sciences and Infectious Diseases, Section of Dermatology, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

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• Arthur M. Baca

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Innovation to End Neglected Diseases (IT-ENDs), East Palo Alto, CA, United States of America

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