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