A qualitative assessment of structural barriers to prenatal care and congenital syphilis prevention in Kern County, California.

Congenital syphilis is the result of placental transmission from mother to fetus of Treponema pallidum. Although congenital syphilis is preventable through timely treatment, the rate of new infections in the United States (US) has increased each year since 2013, and is increasing at a noticeably gre...

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Main Authors: Elaine Y L Chan, Carolyn Smullin, Stephanie Clavijo, Melissa Papp-Green, Eunhee Park, Marlene Nelson, Gloria Giarratano, Jennifer A Wagman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0249419