Congenital syphilis, a reemergent disease in Mexico: Its epidemiology during the last 2 decades

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 798-801

  Reyna Figueroa, Jesús ^a   Esparza Aguilar, Marcelino ^a   Del Carmen Hernández Hernández, Luz ^a   Fernández Canton, Sonia ^a   Richardson Lopez Collada, Vesta Louise ^a  

^a Ministry of Health   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONGENITAL SYPHILIS; DATA BASE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; LIVE BIRTH; MEXICO; MORBIDITY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT, NEWBORN; MEXICO; SYPHILIS, CONGENITAL;

EID: 80051795540     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: 15374521     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OLQ.0b013e31821898ca     Document Type: Article

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