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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Congenital Syphilis"”.
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Congenital syphilis : a study at Provincial Hospital Uitenhage
Aims: 1. To establish the extent of Syphilis in Pregnancy and the association of syphilis with unbooked status and perinatal deaths. 2. To determine why the diagnosis was not made in forty cases of Early Congenital Syphilis. Objectives: 1. To establish the percentage of patients with syphilis at …
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Symptomatic congenital syphilis in a tertiary neonatal unit: a retrospective descriptive study
Background: Syphilis is a disease that was first described in the 1300s and now 700 years later, despite preventive measures and effective treatment, continues to impact on a global scale, with the burden falling largely on the developing world. We could find no recent published literature looking …
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Maternal syphilis in a rural and urban community in Western Cape, South Africa: a cross-sectional analysis
Background: Syphilis affects 2 million pregnant women globally each year, with 63% of cases occurring in sub-Saharan Africa. Untreated infection during pregnancy can lead to vertical transmission, resulting in congenital syphilis in 50–90% of cases. Global rates exceed the World Health …
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Curbing the Epidemic: Evolving Public Health Practices and Implications of Prenatal Syphilis Screening Patterns in Ontario, Canada
Background: Congenital syphilis rates increased significantly between 2018 and 2023 in Ontario, Canada. Timely prenatal syphilis screening is essential for preventing congenital syphilis. We examined the adoption and impact of universal rescreening recommendations on prenatal screening rates and …
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An investigation of antenatal screening and management of syphilis in two districts in the North West Province
Syphilis is a common sexually transmitted disease in South Africa and infection acquired during pregnancy is associated with an increased rate of miscarriage, stillbirth, preterm labour, intra uterine growth restriction (IUGR), neonatal death and congenital syphilis in the newborn. This study was …
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Survey of recent methods of diagnosis and treatment of interstitial keratitis, and an analysis of the results of treatment in a series of 105 cases
… it as being directly due to Inherited Syphilis. In this work Hutchinson mentions that Dr Mackenzie had already devoted a section of his treatise to a description of what he termed, "Scrofulous Corneitis ", and stated, "that it is specifically different from every other ophthalmia". We …
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Syphilis in Pregnancy: Exploring the prevalence and vertical transmission prevention cascade of syphilis using routinely collected electronic health data, Cape Town Metropolitan District, 2017–2022
Introduction: Congenital Syphilis (CS), an important cause of perinatal morbidity and mortality, is notifiable in South Africa. CS results from vertical transmission of inadequately treated syphilis in pregnancy, a treatable sexually transmitted infection caused by Treponema pallidum. Gaps in our …
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A semiquantitative and qualitative histopathologic assessment of the effect of type II intrauterine growth retardation on the structure of the carotid bodies in fetuses and neonates
… remaining 21 cases were 7 dysmorphic infants, 3 congenital infection cases (congenital syphilis) and 11 cases that fitted the negative control criteria but had suffered significant hypoxia, thus excluding them from that category. The results showed that no significant difference was present in …
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Prevalencia y factores asociados a sífilis congénita en recién nacidos y mortinatos atendidos en la subred integrada de salud centro oriente E.S.E en Bogotá entre los años 2018 a 2021. Estudio multimétodo
La sífilis congénita se constituye en la actualidad como uno de los problemas y retos en salud publica en Colombia, debido al incremento de los casos en los últimos años, se plantea un estudio para determinar la prevalencia y factores asociados a sífilis congénita en recién nacidos y mortinatos, …
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Racionalidades leigas e a prevenção da sífilis congênita no Brasil
A pesquisa proposta parte de dois pressupostos: o primeiro, que as práticas e os comportamentos na área da saúde são uma tríade entre fenômenos biológicos, psicológicos e sociais; o segundo, que as ações para a promoção da saúde são complexas e, apesar de considerarem o conhecimento dos sujeitos …
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A intervenção de resposta rápida à sífilis (projeto sífilis não), entre 2018 e 2020, através da percepção das gestoras estaduais e municipais de saúde no Brasil
A sífilis gestacional e congênita é um problema de saúde pública mundial, e a mulher está vulnerável às consequências deste agravo. Uma pactuação nacional constituiu-se estratégia importante para uma intervenção em saúde. Este estudo qualitativo pesquisou o perfil das gestoras de saúde vinculadas …
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Inter-relação entre Sífilis em gestantes e perfil sociodemográfico no Brasil no período 2010 a 2020
A sífilis é uma doença secular e estigmatizada, pois é uma doença sexualmente transmissível com um passado repleto de estereótipos. Partindo para uma perspectiva crítica a respeito da sífilis em gestantes (SG), destaca-se que, historicamente, é possível observar um domínio do poder por parte dos …
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Falla terapéutica de la Penicilina Benzatinica en Sifilis gestacional. Revisión sistemática y metaanálisis
Antecedentes: La sífilis es una infección bacteriana que se trasmite por contacto sexual tratable y curable con el uso de antibiótico de primera elección (penicilina benzatínica). En la actualidad no han sido estudiados los casos de falla terapéutica con los regímenes recomendados para la …