Testing umbilical cords for funisitis due to Treponema pallidum infection, Bolivia.

To establish the frequency of necrotizing funisitis in congenital syphilis, we conducted a prospective descriptive study of maternal syphilis in Bolivia by testing 1,559 women at delivery with rapid plasma reagin (RPR). We examined umbilical cords of 66 infants whose mothers had positive RPR and flu...

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Autores principales: Guarner, J, Southwick, K, Greer, P, Bartlett, J, Santander, A, Blanco, S, Pope, V, Levine, W, Zaki, S
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2000
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2627946/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10998379

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