Congenital Syphilis
Description of the disease
Syphilis is a sexually transmitted infection caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum.
Congenital syphilis is a form of the infection transmitted from an infected mother to her child during pregnancy or childbirth.
Source | Author Doctor Nikas Samuolis, reviewed by Prof. Virginijus Šapoka | Vilnius University | Faculty of Medicine | Head of the Department of Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, and Oncology