Congenital syphilis represents one of the most devastating yet preventable threats to infant health, with cases climbing at an alarming rate across the United States. This resurgent public health ...
A group of researchers provides guidance for diagnosing and treating syphilis, especially for pregnant women who can spread the infection to the fetus. Following reports from the US Centers for ...
Congenital syphilis cases, where syphilis transfers to an unborn child during pregnancy, have risen by over 1,000 percent to 3,761 cases in 2022 from 334 in 2012. Because congenital syphilis is ...
To better capture structural risk factors for syphilis such as community and sexual networks, predictive models that incorporate early syphilis rates among men, violent crime rates, race or ethnic ...
Four states -- Arizona, Georgia, Louisiana, and Michigan -- enacted mandates for prenatal syphilis screening in the third-trimester of pregnancy and at delivery. These mandates were associated with a ...
Skye McGregor is the recipient of a National Health and Medical Research Council Emerging Leadership Level 1 Investigator Grant 2025240. The Kirby Institute receives funding from the Australian ...