Gestational syphilis and mother-to-child transmission: a bibliometric study
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.33448/rsd-v10i10.18455Keywords:
Pregnancy; Syphilis; Congenital; Infectious Disease Transmission; Vertical.Abstract
Gestational syphilis, despite being characterized as a preventable disease with available treatment, persists with high rates of transmission, despite the increased coverage of care to pregnant women and newborns. In order to seek a better understanding of this phenomenon, this study seeks to map the international scientific production on gestational syphilis associated with mother-to-child transmission. This is an exploratory, descriptive study based on the bibliometric analysis of the scientific production published in the Web of Science database. Data analysis was carried out using the HistCiteTM software. After applying the refinement filters, 121 articles were identified, published in 79 different journals. These were written by 720 authors with links to 339 institutions, located in 53 countries. A total of 3,201 references were used, an average of 26 references per article. It was observed that in recent years there has been, in Brazil and worldwide, a positive impact on indicators related to gestational and congenital syphilis, but there is evidence of failures in prenatal care that culminate in the vertical transmission of syphilis and consequently the non-eradication of congenital syphilis as expected in pacts and global goals.
References
Araújo, C. A. (2006). Bibliometria: evolução histórica e questões atuais. Em questão, 12(1), 11-32. Disponível em: https://seer.ufrgs.br/EmQuestao/article/view/16
Arnesen, L., Martínez, G., Mainero, L., Serruya, S., & Durán, P. (2015). Gestational syphilis and stillbirth in Latin America and the Caribbean. International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics, 128(3), 241-245.. Available from: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25443140/
Bowen, V., Su, J., Torrone, E., Kidd, S., & Weinstock, H. (2015). Increase in incidence of congenital syphilis—United States, 2012–2014. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 64(44), 1241-1245. Available from: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6444a3.htm
Brasil. Ministério da Saúde (MS). (2020a). Boletim Epidemiológico Sífilis 2020. Secretaria de Vigilância em Saúde. Distrito Federal, DF. Disponível em: https://www.gov.br/saude/pt-br/media/pdf/2020/outubro/29/BoletimSfilis2020especial.pdf
Brasil. Ministério da Saúde (MS). (2017). Boletim Epidemiológico – Sífilis 2017. Secretaria de Vigilância em Saúde. Distrito Federal, DF. Disponível em: http://www.aids.gov.br/pt-br/node/65020
Brasil. Ministério da Saúde (MS). (2016). Boletim Epidemiológico – Sífilis. Secretaria de Vigilância em Saúde. Distrito Federal, DF. Disponível em: file:///C:/Users/PC/Downloads/2016_030_sifilis_publicao2_pdf_51905.pdf
Brasil. Ministério da Saúde. Secretaria de Vigilância em Saúde. Departamento de Doenças de Condições Crônicas e Infecções Sexualmente Transmissíveis. (2020b). Protocolo Clínico e Diretrizes Terapêuticas para Atenção Integral às Pessoas com Infecções Sexualmente Transmissíveis (IST). Ministério da Saúde, Secretaria de Vigilância em Saúde, Departamento de Doenças de Condições Crônicas e Infecções Sexualmente Transmissíveis. Brasília: Ministério da Saúde.
Disponível em: http://www.aids.gov.br/pt-br/pub/2015/protocolo-clinico-e-diretrizes-terapeuticas-para-atencao-integral-pessoas-com-infeccoes
Brasil. Ministério da Saúde (MS). (2005). Portaria nº 33, de 14 de julho de 2005 - Inclui doenças à relação de notificação compulsória, define agravos de notificação imediata e a relação dos resultados laboratoriais que devem ser notificados pelos Laboratórios de Referência Nacional ou Regional. Brasília: MS. Disponível em: http://bvsms.saude.gov.br/bvs/saudelegis/svs/2005/prt0033_14_07_2005.html
Campos, A. L. D. A., Araújo, M. A. L., Melo, S. P. D., & Gonçalves, M. L. C. (2010). Epidemiology of gestational syphilis in Fortaleza, Ceará State, Brazil: an uncontrolled disease. Cadernos de saude publica, 26(9), 1747-1755.
Disponível em: https://doi.org/10.1590/S0102-311X2010000900008
Carolan, M. (2010). Pregnancy health status of sub-Saharan refugee women who have resettled in developed countries: a review of the literature. Midwifery, 26(4), 407-414. Available from: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0266613808001083
Cruz, A. R., Castrillón, M. A., Minotta, A. Y., Rubiano, L. C., Castano, M. C., & Salazar, J. C. (2013). Gestational and congenital syphilis epidemic in the Colombian Pacific Coast. Sexually transmitted diseases, 40(10), 813-818. Available from: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24275735/
Dinh, T. H., Kamb, M. L., Msimang, V., Likibi, M., Molebatsi, T., Goldman, T., & Lewis, D. A. (2013). Integration of preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis testing and treatment in antenatal care services in the Northern Cape and Gauteng provinces, South Africa. Sexually transmitted diseases, 40(11), 846. Available from: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24113405/
Freitas, F. L. S., Benzaken, A. S., Passos, M. R. L. D., Coelho, I. C. B., & Miranda, A. E. (2021). Protocolo Brasileiro para Infecções Sexualmente Transmissíveis 2020: sífilis adquirida. Epidemiologia e Serviços de Saúde, 30. Disponível em: https://scielosp.org/article/ress/2021.v30nspe1/e2020616/
Hawkes, S. J., Gomez, G. B., & Broutet, N. (2013). Early antenatal care: does it make a difference to outcomes of pregnancy associated with syphilis? A systematic review and meta-analysis. PloS one, 8(2), e56713. Available from: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23468598/
Hong, F. C., Liu, J. B., Feng, T. J., Liu, X. L., Pan, P., Zhou, H., ... & Zeegers, M. P. (2010). Congenital syphilis: an economic evaluation of a prevention program in China. Sexually transmitted diseases, 37(1), 26-31. Available from: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19734825/
Hong, F. C., Yang, Y. Z., Liu, X. L., Feng, T. J., Liu, J. B., Zhang, C. L., ... & Zhou, H. (2014). Reduction in mother-to-child transmission of syphilis for 10 years in Shenzhen, China. Sexually transmitted diseases, 41(3), 188-193. Available from: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24521725/
Ishaque, S., Yakoob, M. Y., Imdad, A., Goldenberg, R. L., Eisele, T. P., & Bhutta, Z. A. (2011). Effectiveness of interventions to screen and manage infections during pregnancy on reducing stillbirths: a review. BMC Public Health, 11(3), 1-12. Available from: https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2458-11-S3-S3
Kahn, J. G., Jiwani, A., Gomez, G. B., Hawkes, S. J., Chesson, H. W., Broutet, N., ... & Newman, L. M. (2014). The cost and cost-effectiveness of scaling up screening and treatment of syphilis in pregnancy: a model. PloS one, 9(1), e87510. Available from: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24489931/
Laksanasopin, T., Guo, T. W., Nayak, S., Sridhara, A. A., Xie, S., Olowookere, O. O., ... & Sia, S. K. (2015). A smartphone dongle for diagnosis of infectious diseases at the point of care. Science translational medicine, 7(273), 273re1-273re1. Available from: https://stm.sciencemag.org/content/7/273/273re1
Maciel, C. J. V. G. (2017). Estratégias de prevenção da sífilis congênita: a atenção a parceiros sexuais. Dissertação (Mestrado em Ciências) - Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Instituto Nacional de Saúde da Mulher da Criança e do Adolescente Fernandes Figueira, Rio de Janeiro. Disponível em: https://www.arca.fiocruz.br/handle/icict/26361
Mesquita, K. O., Lima, G. K., Filgueira, A. A., Flôr, S. M. C., Freitas, C. A. S. L., Linhares, M. S. C., & Gubert, F. A. (2012). Análise dos casos de sífilis congênita em Sobral, Ceará: contribuições para assistência pré-natal. DST-J Bras Doenças Sex Transm, 24(1), 20-7. Disponível em: http://www.dst.uff.br/revista24-1-2012/7.Analise%20dos%20Casos%20de%20Sifilis%20Congenita.pdf
Mitjà, O., Asiedu, K., & Mabey, D. (2013). Yaws. The Lancet, 381(9868), 763-773. Available from: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23415015/
Newman, L., Kamb, M., Hawkes, S., Gomez, G., Say, L., Seuc, A., & Broutet, N. (2013). Global estimates of syphilis in pregnancy and associated adverse outcomes: analysis of multinational antenatal surveillance data. PLoS medicine, 10(2), e1001396. Available from: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23468598/
Ramos, J. M., Toro, C., Reyes, F., Amor, A., & Gutiérrez, F. (2011). Seroprevalence of HIV-1, HBV, HTLV-1 and Treponema pallidum among pregnant women in a rural hospital in Southern Ethiopia. Journal of clinical virology, 51(1), 83-85. Available from: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21330196/
Silva, F. F. A. (2010). Sífilis e HIV na gestação: uma investigação sobre a assistência pré-natal na rede SUS do município do Rio de Janeiro, 2007/2008. Disponível em: file:///C:/Users/ELIANE/Downloads/silvaffam.pdf
Strasser, S., Bitarakwate, E., Gill, M., Hoffman, H. J., Musana, O., Phiri, A., ... & Chintu, N. (2012). Introduction of rapid syphilis testing within prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV programs in Uganda and Zambia: a field acceptability and feasibility study. JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, 61(3), e40-e46. Available from: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22820810/
Wang, A. L., Qiao, Y. P., Wang, L. H., Fang, L. W., Wang, F., Jin, X., ... & Song, L. (2014). Integrated prevention of mother-to-child transmission for human immunodeficiency virus, syphilis and hepatitis B virus in China. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 93, 52-56. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4271682/
Wijesooriya, N. S., Rochat, R. W., Kamb, M. L., Turlapati, P., Temmerman, M., Broutet, N., & Newman, L. M. (2016). Global burden of maternal and congenital syphilis in 2008 and 2012: a health systems modelling study. The Lancet Global Health, 4(8), e525-e533. Available from: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(16)30135-8/fulltext
Wingerter, D. G., Azevedo, U. N. D., Marcaccini, A. M., Alves, M. D. S. C. F., Ferreira, M. Â. F., & Moura, L. K. B. (2018). Scientific production on falls and deaths among elderly persons: a bibliometric analysis. Revista Brasileira de Geriatria e Gerontologia, 21, 320-329. Disponível em: https://www.scielo.br/pdf/rbgg/v21n3/pt_1809-9823-rbgg-21-03-00320.pdf
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2021 Maria Eliane Martins Oliveira da Rocha; Elloá Martins Oliveira da Rocha; Amanda Karoliny Meneses Resende; Carolina Marinho dos Santos Martins
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:
1) Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
2) Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
3) Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.
