Volume 25, Number 8—August 2019
Research
Congenital Syphilis as a Measure of Maternal and Child Healthcare, Brazil
Maria Lusia de Morais Belo Bezerra, Flávia Emília Cavalcante Valença Fernandes, João Paulo de Oliveira Nunes, Solma Lúcia Souto Maior de Araújo Baltar, Karina Perrelli Randau
, and Karina Perrelli Randau.
, and Karina Perrelli Randau.
Table 2
Mean infant mortality rates for congenital syphilis in children <1 year of age reported to national surveillance, by year and region of Brazil, 2010–2015*
| Region | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| North | 119 | 6.27d (3.77–8.77) | ||
| Northeast | 265 | 5.28 (4.16–6.41) | ||
| Southeast | 384 | 5.50 (4.00–7.00) | 0.041 | |
| South | 99 | 4.25 (2.82–5.68) | ||
| Midwest | 39 | 2.73d (1.51–3.96) |
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*Excluding stillbirths and fetal deaths; mean rates/100,000 live births. Values with superscript letters indicate significant differences between the pairs calculated by using the Tukey test.
†Assuming Poisson distribution
‡1-way analysis of variance; p<0.05 indicates statistical significance.
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