Testing umbilical cords for funisitis due to Treponema pallidum infection, Bolivia

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 487-492

  Guarner, Jeannette ^a   Southwick, Karen ^a   Greer, Patricia ^a   Bartlett, Jeanine ^a   Fears, Martha ^a   Santander, Ana ^b   Blanco, Stanley ^b   Pope, Victoria ^a   Levine, William ^a   Zaki, Sherif ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b MotherCare   (Bolivia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BOLIVIA; CONGENITAL SYPHILIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT TREPONEMA ANTIBODY TEST; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NECROTIZING ARTERITIS; NONHUMAN; REAGIN TEST; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; UMBILICAL CORD;

EID: 0033780691     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0605.000507     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. Congenital syphilis - United States, 1990
2. Congenital syphilis: Trends and recommendations for evaluation and management
3. Congenital syphilis and necrotizing funisitis
4. Placental histopathology in syphilis
5. Pathology of the umbilical cord in congenital syphilis: Analysis of 25 specimens using histochemistry and immunofluorescent antibody to Treponema pallidum
6. Congenital syphilis
7. Diagnosis of congenital syphilis from placental examination: Comparison of histopathology, Steiner stain and polymerase chain reaction for Treponemapallidum DNA
8. 1998 Sexually transmitted diseases treatment guidelines
9. Congenital syphilis in a newborn: An immunopathologic study
10. Maternal and congenital syphilis in Bolivian infants: Seroprevalence and risk factors
11. Placentitis
12. Occult congenital syphilis in macerated stillborn fetuses