Congenital syphilis
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https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.iatreia.3475Keywords:
Congenital syphilis, Serology for syphilis, Chronic perinatal infection, Prenatal DiagnosisAbstract
Several aspects of congenital syphilis are discussed with emphasis on the fact that 60% of women who give birth to syphilitic children do not have clinical evidence of the disease; the need to order at least two serological tests at the beginning and at the end of pregnancy, because 15% of pregnant women become reactive only at the end of pregnancy; the possibility of obtaining prenatal fetal blood specimens for diagnostic purposes, by cordocenthesis from the seventeenth week of pregnancy on; the acceptance of a dose of 9.600.000 units of benzathine penicillin for the treatment of syphilis during pregnancy to avoid the cases of Infected Infants observed with doses of 7.200.000 units.
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