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From each hospital, samples were collected from about a quarter of the total recruited pregnant women. Sera were tested to identify the antibody to<jats:italic>T. pallidum<\/jats:italic>using Treponema pallidum hemagglutination at the Virology Department of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University. Logistic regression was used to explore potential risk factors for syphilis.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Results:\u2002<\/jats:bold>Among 1250 sera tested (16 sera were discarded due to hemolysis), 37 (2.96%) were positive for<jats:italic>T. pallidum<\/jats:italic>antibody. Higher seropositivity was associated with couples with no formal education, low socioeconomic status (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2003=\u20030.006), marriage at or before 18\u2003years of age (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2003=\u20030.002), multiple marriages of the husband (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2003=\u20030.031) and sexual activity for more than 10\u2003years (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2003=\u20030.007). Among these factors, low education level of women, early age of marriage and multiple marriages of the husband showed individual effects on high seropositivity to<jats:italic>T. pallidum<\/jats:italic>.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Conclusions:\u2002<\/jats:bold>The high seroprevalence of syphilis among pregnant women attending the antenatal clinics of these hospitals indicates the need for the incorporation of screening for syphilis in routine antenatal screening in Bangladesh. 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