Dermatol. praxi. 2017;11(3):148-150 | DOI: 10.36290/der.2017.029

Syphilis congenita recens – case reports

MUDr. Eliška Staňková

Dermatovenerologické oddělení, Nemocnice České Budějovice, a. s.

Syphilis congenita recens is rare form of syphilis caused by transplacentar transfer of Treponema pallidum during embryonic developementof child since fourth month of pregnancy, that means just after the development of placenta (1). Disease symptomsare defined by mother´s syphilis stage, adequacy and timing of the mothers´s treatment and by imunological reactions of foetus.If mother is in the late secondary syphilis stage, then the placenta infliction is lesser ( smaller amount of Treponema pallidum) andthe child is born alive with clinical attributes of early congenital syphilis, syphilis congenita recens (1,4). The following article bringsto your attention two short case reports of children with early congenital syphilis where diagnosis was determined by positiveserology tests. In both cases there was positive history of syphilis in mother (Sexually Transmitted Infections). Such form of syphiliswere comfirmed by X-ray examination of bones, when osteochondritis syphilitica was found in both cases.

Keywords: syphilis congenita recens, serologic tests, osteochondritis syphilitica

Published: October 1, 2017  Show citation