Commentary Open Access
Volume 1 | Issue 1 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.33696/Pediatrics.1.004
History Tells Us Not to Forget Syphilis as Differential Diagnosis in Paediatric Patients
Anders Vahlquist1,*
- 1Emeritus Professor of Dermatology and Venereology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
Corresponding Author
Anders Vahlquist, anders.vahlquist@medsci.uu.se
Received Date: September 23, 2024
Accepted Date: November 04, 2024
Vahlquist A. History Tells Us Not to Forget Syphilis as Differential Diagnosis in Paediatric Patients. Arch Clin Pediatr. 2024;1(1):23-24.
Copyright: © 2024 Vahlquist A. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Syphilis is a bacterial disease potentially affecting all organs of the body. The symptoms may appear acutely or chronically over periods of many years, and - if left untreated – the disease may lead to premature death. The transmission of the spirochete (Treponema pallidum) occurs via skin and mucous contacts as well as via blood from mother to fetus. Congenital syphilis is associated with neonatal death or chronic morbidities of the skin, skeleton, brain and many other organs.