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Congenital Syphilis (CS) results from vertical transmission of Treponema pallidum (TP) from infected untreated pregnant women to the embryo and/or fetus. Hereby, the authors report on an Italian female preterm newborn affected by CS showing most of the typical clinical manifestations of congenital infection, in addition to uncommon gastrointestinal disorders, including feeding difficulties, colon stenosis and malabsorption leading to postnatal growth delay, which needed a particularly complex diagnostic and therapeutic management. The authors detailed the histopathologic lesions of the gastrointestinal tract that they found in 11 patients with congenital syphilis 1.3% of . . .
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