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Syphilis in Pregnancy
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14. Reference Texts and Articles
If you have been unable to obtain the previous references online, then try these paper-based materials with online abstract and full text links when available.
Reference Texts
1. Obstetrics: Normal and Problem Pregnancies, 4th Edition. Gabbe SG, Neibyl JR, Simpson JL (Eds.). Maternal and Perinatal Infections. Chapter 40. Churchill Livingstone, New York, 2002. Pages 1331-35 (level III).
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2 . Williams Obstetrics. Sexually Transmitted Diseases, 21st Edition. Cunningham GF, et al (Eds.) Section 12, No. 57, pp. 1486-90. McGraw-Hill, 2001 (Level III).
Native American Article References:
Gerber AR, King LC, Dunleavy GJ, Novick LF. An outbreak of syphilis on an Indian reservation: descriptive epidemiology and disease-control measures. Am J Public Health. 1989 Jan;79(1):83-5. Level III
Guerra F. The European-American exchange. Hist Philos Life Sci. 1993;15(3):313-27. Level III
Hutchinson DL. Treponematosis in regional and chronological perspective from central Gulf Coast Florida. Am J Phys Anthropol. 1993 Nov;92(3):249-61.Level III
Naranjo P. On the American Indian origin of syphilis: fallacies and errors. Allergy Proc. 1994 Mar-Apr;15(2):89-99. Level III
Straight WM. Disease and medicine among the pre-Seminole Indians of Florida. J Fla Med Assoc. 1984 Jul;71(7):479-90. Level III
Thoroughman DA, Frederickson D, Cameron HD, Shelby LK, Cheek JE Racial misclassification of American Indians in Oklahoma State surveillance data for sexually transmitted diseases. Am J Epidemiol. 2002 Jun 15;155(12):1137-41. Level III
Toomey KE, Oberschelp AG, Greenspan JR. Sexually transmitted diseases and native Americans: trends in reported gonorrhea and syphilis morbidity, 1984-88. Public Health Rep. 1989 Nov-Dec;104(6):566-72. Level III
Young TJ Venereal diseases and aggression management among Native Americans. Psychol Rep. 1991 Dec;69(3 Pt 1):906. Level III