Evaluating SA’s Congenital Syphilis Notification Surveillance System
How Effective is South Africa’s Congenital Syphilis Notification Surveillance System? Congenital syphilis poses a severe threat to infants, being a debilitating and potentially life-threatening infection. When a pregnant mother carries syphilis, the spirochete Treponema pallidum can be transmitted to the unborn infant through the placenta, a process known as vertical transmission. Up to 80% of […]
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