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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Apr 15.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2015 Oct 16;214(3):381.e1–381.e9. doi: 10.1016/j.ajog.2015.10.007

FIGURE 2. Rates of dead cases of congenital syphilis (CS), by race/ethnicity of mother–United States, 1999 through 2013.

FIGURE 2

Because cases of CS born to non-Hispanic black (black), non-Hispanic white (white), and Hispanic mothers accounted for 94% of reported cases of CS, this chart focuses on these 3 races/ethnicities. During 1999 through 2013, rates of dead cases of CS decreased among black mothers and Hispanic mothers, but remained relatively unchanged among white mothers. In 2013, rate of dead cases of CS among black mothers and Hispanic mothers was 7.5 and 4.5 times rate among white mothers, respectively.