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Journal of Tropical Pediatrics Advance Access originally published online on April 29, 2007
Journal of Tropical Pediatrics 2007 53(4):274-277; doi:10.1093/tropej/fmm025
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Congenital Syphilis in Valera, Venezuela*

Omira Vásquez-Manzanillaa,c, Sonia M. Dickson-Gonzalezb,c, Jose G. Salasa, Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Moralesc,d and Melissa Arriac

aPediatrics Service, Central Hospital of Valera (CHV), Valera, Venezuela
bCaracas Clinical Hospital, Caracas, Venezuela
cCollaborative Group of Clinical Infectious Diseases Research, Caracas, Venezuela
dExperimental Institute JWT, Los Andes University, Trujillo, Venezuela

Correspondence: Melissa Arria, C.R. Los Angeles, T-2, 10-2. Sec.Pque.Cigarral, Urb.La Boyera, Caracas 1083, Venezuela. E-mail < dra_melissa_arria{at}yahoo.com>.


  Abstract

Congenital syphilis still poses a significant public health problem in many countries of the world. We studied epidemiology of syphilis and other sexually transmitted infections among pregnant women and their newborns during a 5-year period at a general hospital in Valera, western Venezuela finding a high incidence of disease among those newborns from infected mothers.

Key Words: syphilis • pregnancy • congenital • sexually transmitted infections

*This work was previously presented in part at the 12th International Congress on Infectious Diseases, Lisbon, Portugal, June 2006 (Poster No. 38.020).


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