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As any others (STD),syphilis can be transmited by sexual intercourse without protection.Also,contagion can be by “direct contact with open lesions,blood transfusion and via placenta,pregnant to fetus during pregnancy”,explains gynecologist-obstetrician Odair Albano.That's why need to use condoms in addition that syringes are absolutely sterile.
The vertical transmission,syphilis transmitted to the baby during pregnancy ,can happen at any time gestational and any time of disease, but the highter risk When pregnant is in phases primary and secondary .The transmission also can happen at the time of birth or breast-feeding ,case the mother has genitals and mammary lesions .
At 50% of children infected from mothers without treatment occur abortion.
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