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The sample totaled 129 notifications of syphilis in pregnant women and 132 notifications of congenital syphilis in the city of Natal, from 2011 to 2015. Data were obtained from the Information System for Disease Notification. The Chi-square, Student\u2019s and Fisher\u2019s tests were used to verify associations of interest. Diagnosis of maternal syphilis was predominant in the third trimester of pregnancy. Only 1.6% of the pregnant women were registered with an adequate treatment regimen, of these 16.3% had the concomitant treatment with their partners. Of the affected children, 78.8% were registered as asymptomatic. The factors that trigger vertical transmission are related to the late diagnosis of the pregnant woman and sexual partner(s) and the deficiencies in clinical\/therapeutic management in relation to the phase of the disease. Strategies of professional training should be adopted to notify and expand the provision of information for epidemiological surveillance, aiming to strengthen care, reduce vertical transmission and enable the continuous analysis of this problem.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ijerph17030984","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,2,6]],"date-time":"2020-02-06T02:59:18Z","timestamp":1580957958000},"page":"984","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":14,"title":["Syphilis Notifications and the Triggering Processes for Vertical Transmission: A Cross-Sectional Study"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"17","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7047-6504","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Samara Isabela Maia","family":"de Oliveira","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Nursing, Post-Graduate Program in Nursing, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal 59072-970, Brazil"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Cec\u00edlia Ol\u00edvia Paraguai","family":"de Oliveira Saraiva","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Nursing, Post-Graduate Program in Nursing, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal 59072-970, Brazil"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"D\u00e9bora Feitosa","family":"de Fran\u00e7a","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Nursing, Post-Graduate Program in Nursing, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal 59072-970, Brazil"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9123-232X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Marcos Ant\u00f4nio","family":"Ferreira J\u00fanior","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Nursing, Post-Graduate Program in Nursing, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal 59072-970, Brazil"},{"name":"Department of Nursing, Integrated Institute of Health of Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul, Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande 79070-900, Brazil"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Libna Helen","family":"de Melo Lima","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Nursing, Post-Graduate Program in Nursing, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal 59072-970, Brazil"},{"name":"Department of Nursing, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal 59072-970, Brazil"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3748-370X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Nilba Lima","family":"de Souza","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Nursing, Post-Graduate Program in Nursing, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal 59072-970, Brazil"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,2,5]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Minist\u00e9rio da Sa\u00fade (2015). 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