ABSTRACT
This disease is also known as njovera, dichuchwa, belesh, and bishel. It is a non-venereal, chronic, treponematosis. It is recurrent in infancy and caused by T. pallidum subsp endemkum. It is characterized by mucocutaneous lesions: macules, plaques, papules, ulcers and scars as well as osseous and destructive cartilaginous lesions.
