Prevalence of congenital syphilis in the period of 2018 to 2019 in an inner city of Bahia
International Journal of Development Research
Prevalence of congenital syphilis in the period of 2018 to 2019 in an inner city of Bahia
Received 22nd September, 2019; Received in revised form; 03rd October, 2019; Accepted 16th November, 2019; Published online 30th December, 2019
Copyright © 2019, Letícia Ferreira Martins et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The syphilis is responsable to affect one million pregnants worldwide leading to 300.000 neonatal and fetal deaths and endangering of premature death more than 200.000 childs in the world. The syphilis is a sexually transmited disease of compulsory notification and has systematic character caused by the gram negative Treponema pallidum bactery and your congenital type is characterized by hematogenous spread of this bactery from the non-treated pregnant by transplacental via and lead to inumerous consequences as spontaneous abortion, intrauterine death. The objective of the study is to identify the prevalence of congenital syphilis in the period of 2018 to 2019 in an inner city of Bahia. It is a transversal, descriptive, quantitative study that was realized in 63 compulsory notified files of Esau Matos Hospital being collected data as age, education level, prenatal care, diagnose and treatment. It was verified the decrease in the congetinal syphilis cases, neonate deaths and increase in the prenatal and treatment.
