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SYPHILIS IN PREGNANCY: TRANSPLACENTAL INFECTION
Author(s) -
Bellingham F. Richard
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1973.tb76511.x
Subject(s) - syphilis , transplacental , medicine , pregnancy , incidence (geometry) , obstetrics , pediatrics , congenital syphilis , disease , public health , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , fetus , immunology , placenta , pathology , biology , genetics , physics , optics
The incidence of previously undiagnosed syphilis in the patients confined at each of two Sydney public hospitals in 1972 was approximately 3 per 1,000. The cases of two patients are reported in whom initial screening for syphilis gave negative results, but the babies died of syphilis—in Sydney, in 1972. There must be greater clinical awareness of this disease, and ideally late as well as early screening in pregnancy.