Eradication of yaws

Robed Amin¹*, Abdus Sattar², Ariful Basher³ and M. A. Faiz⁴

¹Department of Medicine, Dhaka Medical College, Bangladesh.

²Chittagong Medical College, Bangladesh.

³BSMMU, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

⁴Sir Salimullah Medical College, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

*Corresponding author. E-mail: robedamin@yahoo.com.

Accepted 29 September, 2009

   Abstract

Global Medline search have been done on yaws and its eradication since 1950 onwards through meshwork. In this research, reference journals and textbook materials were selectively chosen for detailed clinical characteristics. As the disease has not been common in Bangladesh, expert opinion was lacking. More precise concentration was done over eradication theme. Review target was to elicit questions on readers mind and how to achieve the target with many restrains of eradication of yaws.

Key words: Yaws, Treponema pallidum, eradication.