title: [The 100 years since discovery of Spirochaeta pallida].
abstract: On 3 March 1905, Fritz Schaudinn, Erich Hoffmann and Fred Neufeld, working in the women's ward of the Department of Dermatology at the Charite Hospital in Berlin, became the first people in the world to observe the causative agent of syphilis, Treponema pallidum. The pathogen's etiological significance was subsequently demonstrated by Schaudinn and Hoffmann and other scientists. The detection of Treponema pallidum was the first decisive step towards the development of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in subsequent years.
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Dermatologie und Venerologie, Vívantes-Klinikum Neukölln, Berlin. peter.kohl@vivantes.de
authors.forename: P K
authors.initials: PK
authors.lastname: Kohl
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Winzer
mesh_terms: D003880:Dermatology / Q000266:history*; D005858:Germany; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D013587:Syphilis / Q000266:history*; D014210:Treponema pallidum