congenital syphilis
Birth-transmitted treponema infection
Congenital syphilis is syphilis transmitted from mother to child during pregnancy or birth.
The infection can cause severe complications including bone deformities, neurological damage, and stillbirth.
Unlike acquired syphilis, which spreads through sexual contact, congenital syphilis affects infants who had no opportunity for prevention: The baby was diagnosed with congenital syphilis at birth.
- snufflesNoisy nasal breathing
- stillbirthLate-term pregnancy loss
- VDRL testSerological screening for syphilis
- Treponema pallidumCausative agent of lues
- HutchinsonKansas community, historically industrial
prenatal screening · neonatal jaundice · spirochete · hearing loss · neonatal intensive care · prenatal exposure · miscarriage · skin rash · teeth · chancre · prenatal · infant · failure to thrive · penicillin · public health · deafness · rash · blindness
- Perinatal Infectionslisteriosis, toxoplasmosis, cytomegalovirus, hepatitis B, rubella
- spirochete diseasesleptospirosis, Lyme disease, yaws, pinta, spirochete
- syphilisTreponema pallidum, chancre, spirochete, tabes dorsalis, Hutchinson's teeth
- fetal diseasesfetal alcohol syndrome, hydrops fetalis