Bejel epidemiology and demographics

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Bejel is mainly found in arid countries of the eastern Mediterranean region and in West Africa, where it is known as sahel.

Regions and countries endemic for Treponema pallidum subspecies ^[1]:

• Angola
• Benin
• Botswana
• Burkina Faso
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Chad
• Cote d’Ivoire
• Democratic Republic of the Congo Table 3. Regions and countries endemic for Treponema pallidum subspecies
• Ethiopia
• Gabon
• Ghana
• Liberia
• Mali
• Mauritania
• Niger
• Republic of the Congo
• Rwanda
• Senegal
• Somalia
• South Africa
• Sudan
• Togo

• Colombia
• Ecuador
• Haiti
• Guyana
• Martinique
• Mexico
• Surinam
• Venezuela

• Cambodia
• India
• Indonesia
• Pakistan
• Sri Lanka
• Middle East

• Saudi Arabia

• Papua New Guinea
• Solomon Islands
• Vanuatu

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