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Marilyn Crane, cnm, ms, is an assistant professor in the nurse-midwifery program at Yale University School of Nursing. She received her M.S. In parent-child nursing/nurse-midwifery from the University of Utah in 1977, In addition to her faculty responsibilities, she provides full-scope nurse-midwifery care at an inner-city hospital that has a high incidence of maternal syphilis
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The Diagnosis and Management of Maternal and Congenital Syphilis
Article first published online: 6 JAN 2011
DOI: 10.1016/0091-2182(92)90017-W
1992 American College of Nurse Midwives
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Crane, M. J. (1992), The Diagnosis and Management of Maternal and Congenital Syphilis. Journal of Nurse-Midwifery, 37: 4–16. doi: 10.1016/0091-2182(92)90017-W
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Marilyn Crane, cnm, ms, is an assistant professor in the nurse-midwifery program at Yale University School of Nursing. She received her M.S. In parent-child nursing/nurse-midwifery from the University of Utah in 1977, In addition to her faculty responsibilities, she provides full-scope nurse-midwifery care at an inner-city hospital that has a high incidence of maternal syphilis
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- Article first published online: 6 JAN 2011
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ABSTRACT
A clinical update is presented regarding the epidemiology, diagnosis, and management of maternal and congenital syphilis. Syphilis is reemerging as an endemic disease among minority heterosexual populations of the United States; the widespread use of crac cocaine has been identified as a major contributing factor. The dramatic nationwide increase of primary and secondary syphilis in women has precipitated a dramatic rise in congenital syphilis. The key to prevention of syphilitic stillbirths and congenitally infected infants is early diagnosis and treatment of syphilis in infected pregnant women