Congenital and Heterosexual Syphilis: Still Part of the Problem

Sex Transm Dis. 2018 Sep;45(9S Suppl 1):S20-S22. doi: 10.1097/OLQ.0000000000000837.

Abstract

Although the U.S. syphilis epidemic is concentrated among men who have sex with men, the number of congenital syphilis cases and the primary and secondary syphilis rate among women both doubled in recent years.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Female
  • Heterosexuality
  • Humans
  • Pregnancy
  • Pregnancy Complications, Infectious / epidemiology*
  • Pregnancy Complications, Infectious / prevention & control
  • Syphilis / epidemiology*
  • Syphilis / prevention & control
  • Syphilis, Congenital / epidemiology*
  • Syphilis, Congenital / prevention & control