CDC: Congenital syphilis on the rise in newborns Michigan health officials and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say newborn syphilis cases are soaring.Nov 9, 2023 Facebook Live Now CBS News 24/7 CBS News Baltimore CBS News Bay Area...
Congenital Syphilis on the Rise: A Case Series and Discussion of Two Patients With Orthopaedic Manifestations of a Rare but Increasingly Common Diseasedoi:10.5435/JAAOSGlobal-D-24-00221Congenital syphilis is becoming increasingly common in the United States. Early identification and treatment are ...
That action should include more timely syphilis testing of pregnant patients and treatment as needed, both more than 30 days before delivery. Experts outlined challenges in delivering this care to patients but offered best practices. "We have babies dying in the United States from a disease that ...
Cardiovascular syphilis, light micrograph. The media of the aorta contains numerous thin walled blood vessels (white spaces containing red blood cells) surrounded by cellular infiltrate made up almost exclusively of plasma cells. Syphilis infects the ascending aorta causing aorti...
congenital syphilis has been on the rise.[2][3][10][11]Between 2017 and 2022, the incidence rates of maternal and congenital syphilis increased in the US by over 2.5 times (from 87.2 to 280.4 per 100,000 live births, according to the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). The ...
Congenital syphilis is a major cause of pregnancy loss and stillbirth as well as infant morbidity, and the incidence of congenital syphilis continues to rise in the United States. Infants may present with signs of congenital infection including hepatosplenomegaly, rash, and osteochondritis/perios...
Case: Congenital syphilis (CS) is an infrequently seen condition in the United States; however, rates of CS have been on the rise. We present a case of an infant with a lesion of the radius that was initially diagnosed as a metaphyseal ...
“TORCH”pathogens, includingtoxoplasmosisand others likesyphilis, Varicellazostervirus (VZV),rubella,cytomegalovirus(CMV), andherpes simplex virus(HSV), the spectrum of infectious pathogens causing congenital infections is now recognized as a larger group, and includes several infections such asZika virus...
Immunity to reinfection with syphilis is largely dependent on the duration of the original infection. Reinfections are almost exclusively seen in patients who have been treated for primary or secondary syphilis, that is, at a stage when immunity has not had time to develop. This report describes...
syphilis, cytomegalovirus, herpes simplex virus (TORCH), can lead to CC. Among these, rubella virus infection is the most prevalent. Besides cataract, the clinical manifestations of congenital rubella syndrome include glaucoma, pigmentary retinopathy, heart disease, and brain dysfunction. However, the...