Sexually transmitted diseases continued to rise in Minnesota in 2018, according to a report by the Minnesota Department of Health. Ten reports of congenital syphilis cases, an increase from two in ...

Of infants born to mothers with primary or secondary syphilis, up to 50% will be premature, stillborn, or die in the neonatal period; further, most of these children are born with congenital ...

Background: Infectious syphilis rates have been increasing in Winnipeg, Manitoba among individuals during their childbearing years. Untreated or inadequately treated prenatal infection often results ...

Lawmakers advanced a proposal Monday designed to expand syphilis blood testing for expectant mothers to stem a rising tide of ...

Provinces and territories that reported a male-to-female rate ratio lower than the national ratio of 1.8 or, in other words, had a higher proportion of females impacted than the national average, ...

A large number of babies were diagnosed with congenital syphilis in Tamil Nadu in 2023-24 compared to the previous years. It went from five babies in 2022-23 to 600 in 2023-24, according to a ...

The latest data on congenital syphilis in South Africa reveals that in 2023, 198 babies out of every 100 000 live births had been infected by their mothers. Syphilis is a sexually transmitted ...

The 2024 statistics aren’t finalized yet, but it appears about 60 babies had congenital syphilis, which means they got the infection during pregnancy or at birth. The number of cases had ...

In our clinic, quantitative serologic tests are taken routinely on all patients with early syphilis, but these have proved to be of the greatest value in the cases with negative dark-field lesions ...