Treatment administered to newborns with congenital syphilis during a penicillin shortage in 2015, Fortaleza, Brazil.
Ana Fátima Braga RochaMaria Alix Leite AraújoMelanie M TaylorEdna O KaraNathalie Jeanne Nicole BroutetPublished in: BMC pediatrics (2021)
During the period of shortage of penicillin in Fortaleza, less than half of the infants reported with CS were treated with a nationally-recommended regimen, the remaining received treatment with medications available in the hospital of birth including drugs that are not part of nationally or internationally-recommended treatment recommendations.