Abstract

FERNANDEZ MARTORI, Meilyn et al. Reactive serology in pregnant women. Apropos of three cases. Rev.Med.Electrón. [online]. 2017, vol.39, n.3, pp. 567-576. ISSN 1684-1824.

Gestational syphilis is transmitted from mother to child via the placenta and the birth canal. It is diagnosed in the child at the moment of birth.  This hematogenous transmission of the treponema pallidum from the non-treated or inadequately treated pregnant woman to her new born child is called congenital syphilis. Preventing the maternal transmission of the syphilis to the fetus, or at least treating it in the uterus, is among the strategies of the Ministry of Public Health. To achieve this purpose serology should be carried out to the pregnant woman and her husband. The causes of a reactive serology might be different, but it is always necessary to thing of syphilis. Three cases of syphilis in pregnant women are presented and also their follow-up in a health area.

Keywords : maternal syphilis; congenital syphilis; reactive serology; pregnant woman.

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