Worrying increase in the risk of vertical transmission of syphilis in Croatia, 2020 to 2024-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Worrying increase in the risk of vertical transmission of syphilis in Croatia, 2020 to 2024

Published:2024-09-05 Issue:36 Volume:29 Page:
ISSN:1560-7917
Container-title:Eurosurveillance
language:en
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Author:

Nemeth Blažić Tatjana¹^ORCID,Krajcar Nina²^ORCID,Kosanović Ličina Mirjana Lana³^ORCID,Ljubas Dominik²,Mardh Otilia⁴,Božičević Ivana⁵^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Croatian Institute of Public Health, Zagreb, Croatia

2. University Hospital for Infectious Diseases ‘Dr Fran Mihaljević’, Zagreb, Croatia

3. Andrija Štampar Teaching Institute of Public Health, Zagreb, Croatia

4. European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden

5. World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for HIV Strategic Information, University of Zagreb School of Medicine, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

Four infants potentially exposed to syphilis infection in utero, meeting World Health Organization surveillance criteria of congenital syphilis (CS), were diagnosed in Croatia between September 2020 and January 2024. We conducted a retrospective analysis of epidemiological, clinical and laboratory data of these cases to assess compliance with surveillance case definitions. As only one confirmed CS case has been reported in Croatia in over 2 decades, these reports signal an increased risk of syphilis vertical transmission and warrant strengthening antenatal screening.

Publisher

European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (ECDC)

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