title: Early yaws, imported in The Netherlands.
abstract: Early yaws in a 9 year old girl from Ghana, diagnosed as imported disease in The Netherlands is reported. She had lived in The Netherlands for six months. Tropical non-venereal treponematoses are rarely seen in Europe, and only a few case reports have been published. Migration and travelling may confront the medical profession with cases of tropical diseases such as yaws. Positive serological reactions in non-venereal tropical or venereal treponematoses cannot be distinguished at present.
authors.affiliation: Department of Dermatology and Venereology, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: H J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Engelkens
authors.forename: A P
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Oranje
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Stolz
mesh_terms: D001132:Arm; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D005869:Ghana / Q000208:ethnology; D006801:Humans; D009426:Netherlands; D015001:Yaws / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology*