Current status of the teaching of congenital syphilis

Abstract

The extremely complicated question of congenital syphilis, which for decades had been the subject of comprehensive and careful study, seemed to find a solution at the beginning of this century in Matzenauer's major work, which exhaustively covered this tremendous problem and established the basic laws of parent to fetus transmission. It seemed that clarity and certainty were introduced into the question, leaving no room for doubts and disputes and reconciling the representatives of various theories. However, during the last two decades, in connection with the accumulation of colossal material on syphilis serodiagnostics and in connection with the attempts of some authors to make some changes in Matzenauer's teaching on the basis of purely clinical observations, congenital syphilis again becomes an acute topic of modern syphilidology.

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