ON THE QUESTION ABOUT CURRENT COURSE OF EARLY CONGENITAL SYPHILIS AND ITS DIAGNOSTICS

Abstract

The authors carried out the analysis of cases of congenital syphilis in Chitinskaya oblast during 1999-2001. The major part of them was clinical ones - 77% (latent ones - 23%). This article describes the picture features of the clinical syphilis. The features that are intrinsical to generalized intrauterine infections have prevailed. The main reasons for congenital syphilis were adverse social status of mothers, absence of observation during pregnancy or registration late in pregnancy and, therefore, impossibility of full value specific and preventive treatment. The authors point to the difficulty of diagnostics of latent and little symptomatic forms of the disease, which demands perfecting of sérologie and molecular-biologic methods of analysis.