Global Estimates of Syphilis in Pregnancy and Associated Adverse Outcomes: Analysis of Multinational Antenatal Surveillance Data

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Newman, Lori ^a   Kamb, Mary ^b   Hawkes, Sarah ^c   Gomez, Gabriela ^d,e   Say, Lale ^a   Seuc, Armando ^a   Broutet, Nathalie ^a  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

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

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d AMSTERDAM INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT   (Netherlands)

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE OUTCOME; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; FEMALE; FETUS DEATH; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; PERINATAL MORBIDITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRENATAL CARE; SCREENING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STILLBIRTH; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMATOSIS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE, INTEGRATED; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; FETAL MORTALITY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREMATURE BIRTH; PRENATAL CARE; SEROLOGIC TESTS; STILLBIRTH; SYPHILIS; SYPHILIS, CONGENITAL; TIME FACTORS; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 84874457525     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001396     Document Type: Article

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