Do women with persistently negative nontreponemal test results transmit syphilis during pregnancy?

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 311-315

  Peterman, Thomas A ^a   Newman, Daniel R ^a   Davis, Darlene ^a   Su, John R ^a  

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

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; NEGATIVE NONTREPONEMAL TEST; NEWBORN; PROTEIN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; STILLBIRTH; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; X RAY;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (U.S.); FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; MALE; MASS SCREENING; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; STILLBIRTH; SYPHILIS; SYPHILIS SERODIAGNOSIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84875212095     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: 15374521     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OLQ.0b013e318285c5a7     Document Type: Article

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