Open AccessOn the question of congenital syphilis. Matzenauer (Wien, klin, Woch., No. 1, 1929)
Author(s) -
A. Weinstein
Publication year - 1929
Publication title -
kazanskij medicinskij žurnal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2587-9359
pISSN - 0368-4814
DOI - 10.17816/kazmj80068
Subject(s) - syphilis , congenital syphilis , subject (documents) , medicine , term (time) , pediatrics , gynecology , virology , computer science , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , library science , physics , quantum mechanics
Matzenauer, who has been working in this field for 25 years, summarizes our current knowledge on the subject in his review. First of all, it is emphasized that in syphilis, as in other infections (the), the disease is not transmitted by the germ cells (sperm or egg); syphilis is transmitted only by the placental route; therefore the term hereditary syphilis must be dropped and replaced by the term congenital.