Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Information Science and Technology Applications (ICISTA-2013)

Epidemiological Analysis on 183 Cases of Congenital Syphilis

Authors
Hui Wu, Jing Cui, Dan Dang, Dongxuan Wang
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Hui Wu
Available Online June 2013.
DOI
10.2991/icista.2013.10How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Congenital; Syphilis; Neonates; Epidemiology
Abstract

To discuss the epidemiological characteristics of congenital syphilis. Methods: Retrospective analysed the 183 cases of congenital syphilis from Jan. 2002 to Jan. 2012 in our department, and the gestational age, sex, birth weight, delivery mode, age on admission, onset time, parents’ occupations, medical history and treatment of mother's syphilis are analyzed. Results: In the past ten years, rate of congenital syphilis in total inpatients increased, 7.7% are latent syphilis, 92.3% are early congenital syphilis, and there is no late congenital syphilis. It is more common for babies of three months, 68.3% are neonates. 36.1% are diagnosed in prenatal period, and 3.3% treated with full course of penicillin. Conclusion: Incidence of congenital syphilis increased year by year, the detectable rate of syphilis in prenatal period and the rate of full course treatment are low, most congenital syphilis are within 3 months after birth, especially in ne-onatal period.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Information Science and Technology Applications (ICISTA-2013)
Series
Advances in Intelligent Systems Research
Publication Date
June 2013
ISBN
978-90-78677-68-0
ISSN
1951-6851
DOI
10.2991/icista.2013.10How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2013, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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