Browsing by Author "Salazar J., Aurora"

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    Evaluación de métodos diagnósticos para sífilis congénita
    (2000) Salazar J., Aurora; Perret P., Cecilia; Chávez P., Ana; Garcia C., Patricia; Millan O., Zunilda; Goycoolea M., Manuela; Parada B., Jacqueline; Urra M., Liliana; Ahumada H., Eugenia; Yoma B., M. Teresa; Duque O., Clara; Herman L., Odette; Quiroga G., Teresa
    Congenital syphilis is a relevant problem in our country. At the present, no routine method is available to verify the diagnostic. This multicenter prospective study recruited serum samples reactive for VDRL of sixty mothers with their respective infant (n = 120). In addition to the routinely used screening assay (RPR, VDRL) the following tests were performed: serological detection of specific antibodies to Treponema pallidum for IgM ( Pathozyme®, Captia® IgM), for IgG (Captia® IgG) and for IgG/IgM ( MHA-TP; Pathozyme competition®, ICE Syphilis®, Determine®). A good agreement was observed between the immunoassays for IgG alone or IgG/IgM (90%) and for IgM alone or IgG/IgM (87.5%). Every mother who had syphilis in the moment of the study or had had syphilis before, and her newborn child, were positive for IgG. Only 64% of the mothers with adequate treatment during their pregnancy had a positive titer for IgM and all of their newborn were not reactive for IgM. The mothers whose treatment was inadequate had IgM titers positive in 82.3% and their children had IgM positive in 11.8%. No correlation was found between a positive maternal IgM titer and the risk of the infant to present the disease. The newborn IgM titer is a useful parameter for an early diagnosis but a negative result cannot discard this pathology.