Analysis of tests of syphilis among maternal women in Guangxi from 2011 to 2013

doi:10.3969/j.issn.1674-3806.2015.03.06

Abstract：Objective To explore the conditions of syphilis infection among maternal women in Guangxi and provide scientific evidence for making policy to intervene in mother-to-child transmission of syphilis .Methods Rapid plasma Reagin Test(RPR) and Toluidine Red unheated Serum Test (TRusrt) were used to screen syphilis infections in the prenatal maternal and hospital delivery women .Trepmen Pauidum Particle Agglutination ( TPPA) was applied to confirm the results.Results 2 575 233 pregnant women were included in the study.The testing numbers were 798 305, 924 622 and 852 306 respectively from 2011 to 2013 in Guangxi .The detection rates had a rising trend year by year which were 96.12%, 99.55%and 99.84%from 2011 to 2013 , the positive rates were 0.22%, 0.09%and 0.17%respectively from 2011 to 2013 .The positive rate in 2013 was twice as many as that in 2012 .The proportion of syphi-lis detection in pregnant women was 24.03%higher in 2013 than that in 2011 .The proportion of intrapartum detec-tion was decreased by 78.26%in 2013 compared with that in 2011 .The positive rates of intrapartum detection were respectively 0.47%, 0.55%and 0.67%from 2011 to 2013 .Conclusion Maternal syphilis infection has increased year by year in Guangxi .It is necessary to strengthen standard treatment of the maternal syphilis infection and their birth-infant, and follow-up on a regular basis and scientific management to control the syphilis mother -to-child trans-mission.