Syphilis in Pregnancy in Tanzania. I. Impact of Maternal Syphilis on Outcome of Pregnancy

Autor:	Deborah Watson-Jones, Jim Todd, John Changalucha, Mary Rusizoka, Rebecca Balira, David Ross, Leonard Ndeki, David Mabey, Richard J. Hayes, Anne Whitehouse, Balthazar Gumodoka, Helen A. Weiss, Donatila Ngeleja, Anne Buvé
Rok vydání:	2002
Předmět:	Adult Sexually transmitted disease Benzathine benzylpenicillin medicine.medical_specialty Impact assessment Bacterial diseases Population Maternal Tanzania Rapid plasma reagin Cohort Studies Syphilis Serodiagnosis chemistry.chemical_compound Risk Factors Pregnancy Odds Ratio medicine Humans Immunology and Allergy Treponema pallidum Syphilis Pregnancy Complications Infectious education Retrospective Studies Antibacterial agent Sexually transmitted diseases Perinatal mortality Gynecology education.field_of_study medicine.diagnostic_test Obstetrics business.industry Congenital diseases Pregnancy Outcome Africa East medicine.disease Infectious Diseases chemistry Female business STD
Zdroj:	The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 186:940-947
ISSN:	1537-6613 0022-1899
DOI:	10.1086/342952
Popis:	To measure the impact of maternal syphilis on pregnancy outcome in the Mwanza Region of Tanzania, 380 previously unscreened pregnant women were recruited into a retrospective cohort at delivery and tested for syphilis. Stillbirth was observed in 18 (25%) of 73 women with high-titer active syphilis (i.e., women with a rapid plasma reagin titer > or = 1 :8 and a positive Treponema pallidum hemagglutination assay or indirect fluorescent treponemal antibody test result), compared with 3 (1%) of 233 uninfected women (risk ratio [RR], 18.1; P
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