Sexually Transmitted Disease

Better tests may help detect congenital syphilis in newborns

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, July 7th, 2002

A University of Texas (UT) Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas research team has developed two blood tests that quickly and reliably diagnose congenital syphilis in newborns.

"This is the first study to document the presence of the syphilis spirochete in the cerebrospinal fluid of infected infants. Thus we are the first to accurately assess diagnostic evaluations of infants for the possibility of central nervous system invasion," said Dr. Pablo Sanchez, professor of pediatrics and senior author of the study appearing in the June 6, 2002, issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

Sanchez said the two blood tests detect either neonatal...

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