Adverse Neonatal Outcomes Associated With Maternal Sexually Transmitted Infections From a Public Health Clinic Cohort in Southern Brazil

Huan Vinh Dong; Mei Leng; Regis Kreitchmann; Jeffrey D Klausner; Karin Nielsen-Saines; Nava Yeganeh

doi:10.1093/jpids/piac027

Adverse Neonatal Outcomes Associated With Maternal Sexually Transmitted Infections From a Public Health Clinic Cohort in Southern Brazil

J Pediatric Infect Dis Soc. 2022 Jul 21;11(7):345-348. doi: 10.1093/jpids/piac027.

Authors

Huan Vinh Dong¹, Mei Leng², Regis Kreitchmann^{3

4}, Jeffrey D Klausner⁵, Karin Nielsen-Saines⁶, Nava Yeganeh⁶

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pediatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA.
² Department of Medicine, Biostatistics at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA.
³ Irmandade da Santa Casa de Misericordia de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
⁴ Federal University of Health Sciences, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
⁵ Division of Preventative Medicine, USC Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, USA.
⁶ Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, USA.

Abstract

Pregnant women at public medical centers in Porto Alegre, Brazil, were recruited for a study on screening and treatment of sexually transmitted infections (STIs). STIs were detected in 79 (23%) of 350 pregnant women and were found to be associated with infant low birth weight (adjusted odds ratio 5.8; 95% confidence interval 1.9-18).

Keywords: adverse infant birth outcomes; congenital syphilis; low birth weight; pregnancy; sexually transmitted infection.

Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society 2022.

MeSH terms

Brazil / epidemiology
Cohort Studies
Female
Humans
Infant
Infant, Newborn
Pregnancy
Pregnancy Complications, Infectious* / diagnosis
Public Health
Sexually Transmitted Diseases* / complications
Sexually Transmitted Diseases* / epidemiology

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