A risk model for congenital syphilis in infants born to mothers with syphilis treated in gestation: A prospective cohort study

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 292-296

  Liu, Jiang Bo ^a   Hong, Fu Chang ^b   Pan, Peng ^b   Zhou, Hua ^c   Yang, Fan ^b   Cai, Yu Mao ^b   Wen, Li Zhang ^b   Lai, Yong Hui ^b   Lin, Li Jun ^b   Zeegers, Maurice P ^a,d,e  

^a Huiyang People's Hospital   (China)

^b Shenzhen Center for Chronic Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

^c Bao'An Maternal and Child Health Hospital   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^e MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; BENZATHINE PENICILLIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONGENITAL SYPHILIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SYPHILIS; ADOLESCENT; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SYPHILIS SEROLOGY; SYPHILIS, CONGENITAL; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PRENATAL CARE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SYPHILIS SERODIAGNOSIS; SYPHILIS, CONGENITAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956050028     PISSN: 13684973     EISSN: 14723263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/sti.2009.037549     Document Type: Article

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