Croatian Institute of Public Health, Zagreb, Croatia.
University Hospital for Infectious Diseases 'Dr Fran Mihaljević', Zagreb, Croatia.
Euro Surveill. 2024 Sep;29(36). doi: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2024.29.36.2400517.
Four infants potentially exposed to syphilis infection in utero, meeting World Health Organization surveillance criteria of congenital syphilis (CS), were diagnosed in Croatia between September 2020 and January 2024. We conducted a retrospective analysis of epidemiological, clinical and laboratory data of these cases to assess compliance with surveillance case definitions. As only one confirmed CS case has been reported in Croatia in over 2 decades, these reports signal an increased risk of syphilis vertical transmission and warrant strengthening antenatal screening.
2020 年 9 月至 2024 年 1 月期间，克罗地亚诊断出 4 例在子宫内可能接触过梅毒感染的婴儿，符合世界卫生组织先天性梅毒（CS）监测标准。我们对这些病例的流行病学、临床和实验室数据进行了回顾性分析，以评估其是否符合监测病例定义。由于在过去 20 多年中，克罗地亚仅报告了 1 例确诊的 CS 病例，因此这些报告表明梅毒垂直传播的风险增加，需要加强产前筛查。
