Vidya Bommi
Biographic Data
| ID | 6079794 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vidya Bommi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vidya |
| FAMILY NAME | Bommi |
| SIGNATURE | BOMMI V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Daniel W. Fitzgerald, Johanne Preval, Lauren Schulwolf, Vidya Bommi, and Pascal Chaillet are with Hospital Albert Schweitzer, Deschapelles, Haiti. Dr Fitzgerald is also with the Division of International Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Cornell University Medical College, New York, NY. Frieda Behets is with the Department of Medicine and the Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 1 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Decreased Congenital Syphilis Incidence in Haiti’s Rural Artibonite Region Following Decentralized Prenatal Screening
Congenital syphilis can be prevented by testing pregnant women with a serological test developed by Wassermann in 1906 and by treating seropositive women with penicillin, discovered by Fleming in 1928.1,2 Unfortunately, more than 70 years later, congenital syphilis is still a leading cause of perinatal death in many developing countries.3–11 Before 1996, syphilis screening for pregnant women in Haiti’s Artibonite region was done by drawing blood …
Decreased Congenital Syphilis Incidence in Haiti’s Rural Artibonite Region Following Decentralized Prenatal Screening
Congenital syphilis can be prevented by testing pregnant women with a serological test developed by Wassermann in 1906 and by treating seropositive women with penicillin, discovered by Fleming in 1928.1,2 Unfortunately, more than 70 years later, congenital syphilis is still a leading cause of perinatal death in many developing countries.3–11 Before 1996, syphilis screening for pregnant women in Haiti’s Artibonite region was done by drawing blood …
Decreased Congenital Syphilis Incidence in Haiti’s Rural Artibonite Region Following Decentralized Prenatal Screening
Congenital syphilis can be prevented by testing pregnant women with a serological test developed by Wassermann in 1906 and by treating seropositive women with penicillin, discovered by Fleming in 1928.1,2 Unfortunately, more than 70 years later, congenital syphilis is still a leading cause of perinatal death in many developing countries.3–11 Before 1996, syphilis screening for pregnant women in Haiti’s Artibonite region was done by drawing blood …
Congenital syphilis (1 work) · Demography (1 work) · Environmental health (1 work) · Family medicine (1 work) · Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) (1 work) · Incidence (geometry) (1 work) · Medicine (1 work) · Pediatrics (1 work) · Pediatrics (1 work) · Population (1 work)