Congenital syphilis in a preterm newborn with gastrointestinal disorders and postnatal growth restriction

Table 1 Microbiological (treponemal and non-treponemal tests, Immunoblotting, T. pallidum DNA PCR) profiles of our patient and her mother during pregnancy and after delivery

	TPHA	VDRL (RPR)	Liaison (UA/ml)	Immunoblotting IgG/IgM	T. pallidum DNA PCR
Mother
8^th week of pregnancy	Negative	Negative
9^th week of pregnancy	1:280	Positive (not quantified, performed in a different analysis center)	46.8
12^th week of pregnancy	1:640	Positive (not quantified, performed in a different analysis center)
20 days after delivery	1:40,960	1:64
2 months and 16 days after delivery and the administration of three I.M. doses (1,200,000 IU) of Benzathine Benzylpenicillin		1:16	45.4	Present/Present
5 months after delivery		1:2
Daughter
Day 1		1:256	43.4	Present/Present	Positive
2 months and 12 days		1:64	13.0	Present/Present
5 months and 18 days		1:4	20.7	Present/Absent

I.M. Intramuscular, TPHA Treponema Pallidum Haemagglutination Assay, VDRL Venereal Disease Reference Laboratory, RPR Rapid Plasma Reagin

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