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Article: Recommendation regarding screening of refugee children for Treponemal infection.(Notice to Readers)
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- MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
- Article date:
- September 23, 2005
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In October 2004, CDC's Divisions of Sexually Transmitted Disease Prevention and Global Migration and Quarantine received reports of positive syphilis tests for refugee children who arrived in the United States from Liberia and Somalia. Infection with Treponema pallidum subsp, pallidum, T. pallidum subsp, pertenue, 77 pallidum subsp, endemicum, and Treponema carateum cause syphilis, yaws, bejel/endemic syphilis, and pinta, respectively. This group of infections causes various disfiguring skin lesions and rashes; long-term infection can result in deformations of bone and nasopharyngeal tissue, aortitis, and other destructive lesions (1). Serologic tests cannot differentiate ...