Health officials are working to raise awareness and promote STI testing as they continue to see an increase in syphilis cases ...

As congenital syphilis cases soar in the United States, some states are turning to rapid, point-of-care tests to catch ...

Children born with syphilis are six times more likely to be admitted to hospital in their first five years of life compared ...

Analysis of data on 8 million children in Brazil shows that syphilis exposure during pregnancy increases children's risk of ...

Pregnancy itself does not seem to alter the clinical progression of syphilis in the female: As in the nonpregnant woman, the primary lesion (Fig. 2) can appear 10 to 90 days after the causative ...

We would like to thank Xin Yu Yang and colleagues for their interest in our Clinical Picture1 and for highlighting the diagnostic challenges of congenital syphilis in their comments.

Cases of congenital syphilis — an STI passed to a baby during pregnancy — increased by 1,450% in the state since 2019. Health officials say there were 31 cases of babies born with syphilis in ...

Awareness Month, and STI rates are on the rise in Michigan. The District Health Department No. 4 (DHD4) encourages people to get tested regularly and to advocate for their sexual health. According to ...

an RDT can be used to increase access to testing or for prenatal screening to prevent congenital syphilis. In settings where non-treponemal tests, such as the RPR test, are available, it might be ...

(WBAY) - Rates of babies born with congenital syphilis are increasing in Wisconsin ... sexually transmitted infection that is then passed along to the baby in pregnancy. Preliminary data from ...

Congenital syphilis occurs when a baby is born with syphilis after the infection passes from mother to child during pregnancy. The condition can have devastating consequences – up to 40% of ...