Case Report: A Delayed Diagnosis of Congenital Syphilis—Too Many Missed Opportunities

Congenital syphilis remains a significant public health problem nowadays. We describe the presentation of an infant with a delayed diagnosis of congenital syphilis, with a negative initial non-treponemal test. Our aim is to shed light on the incidence of missed prevention, the importance of awarenes...

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Autores principales: Khafaja, Sarah, Youssef, Yolla, Darjani, Nidale, Youssef, Nour, Fattah, Captain Mohammad, Hanna-Wakim, Rima
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
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Pediatrics
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7855964/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33553061
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fped.2020.499534
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author Khafaja, Sarah
Youssef, Yolla
Darjani, Nidale
Youssef, Nour
Fattah, Captain Mohammad
Hanna-Wakim, Rima
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description Congenital syphilis remains a significant public health problem nowadays. We describe the presentation of an infant with a delayed diagnosis of congenital syphilis, with a negative initial non-treponemal test. Our aim is to shed light on the incidence of missed prevention, the importance of awareness, maternal screening, and early diagnosis.
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spelling pubmed-78559642021-02-04 Case Report: A Delayed Diagnosis of Congenital Syphilis—Too Many Missed Opportunities Khafaja, Sarah Youssef, Yolla Darjani, Nidale Youssef, Nour Fattah, Captain Mohammad Hanna-Wakim, Rima Front Pediatr Pediatrics Congenital syphilis remains a significant public health problem nowadays. We describe the presentation of an infant with a delayed diagnosis of congenital syphilis, with a negative initial non-treponemal test. Our aim is to shed light on the incidence of missed prevention, the importance of awareness, maternal screening, and early diagnosis. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-01-20 /pmc/articles/PMC7855964/ /pubmed/33553061 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fped.2020.499534 Text en Copyright © 2021 Khafaja, Youssef, Darjani, Youssef, Fattah and Hanna-Wakim. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Case Report: A Delayed Diagnosis of Congenital Syphilis—Too Many Missed Opportunities
title Case Report: A Delayed Diagnosis of Congenital Syphilis—Too Many Missed Opportunities
title_full Case Report: A Delayed Diagnosis of Congenital Syphilis—Too Many Missed Opportunities
title_fullStr Case Report: A Delayed Diagnosis of Congenital Syphilis—Too Many Missed Opportunities
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title_short Case Report: A Delayed Diagnosis of Congenital Syphilis—Too Many Missed Opportunities
title_sort case report: a delayed diagnosis of congenital syphilis—too many missed opportunities
topic Pediatrics
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7855964/
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