Jabbar Salman Hassan
Keywords: Treponema pallidum haemagglutination test (TPHA), venereal disease research laboratory (VDRL)
Abstract: Syphilis is a chronic bacterial sexually transmitted infection caused by the spirochaete called Treponema pallidum. It can also be transmitted by blood transfusion or vertically. The present study was carried out to diagnosis the syphilis infection during pregnancy. In this study 400 pregnant women were enrolled over eleven months from March 2012 to January 2013 serological methods including VDRL as screening test and TPHA as confirmatory test were used. Venereal disease research laboratory (VDRL) reveals that out of 400 pregnant women twelve cases (3%) were positive, out of 12 samples were positive by VDRL nine (75%) were positive by TPHA. Congenitally transmissible syphilis continues to occur among pregnant women in the Iraq Cases would be missed and stillbirths and congenitally infected babies would occur if antenatal screening was not achieved.
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