Global burden of maternal and congenital syphilis and associated adverse birth outcomes—Estimates for 2016 and progress since 2012

Eline L. Korenromp; Jane Rowley; Monica Alonso; Maeve B. Mello; N. Saman Wijesooriya; S. Guy Mahiané; Naoko Ishikawa; Linh-Vi Le; Morkor Newman-Owiredu; Nico Nagelkerke; Lori Newman; Mary Kamb; Nathalie Broutet; Melanie M. Taylor

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0211720

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Global burden of maternal and congenital syphilis and associated adverse birth outcomes—Estimates for 2016 and progress since 2012

Eline L. Korenromp ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

* E-mail: ekorenromp@avenirhealth.org

Affiliation Avenir Health, Geneva, Switzerland

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5301-8461

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Jane Rowley,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Independent consultant, London, United Kingdom
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Monica Alonso,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Communicable Diseases and Environmental Determinants of Health, Pan-American Health Organization, Washington DC, United States of America
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Maeve B. Mello,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Communicable Diseases and Environmental Determinants of Health, Pan-American Health Organization, Washington DC, United States of America
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N. Saman Wijesooriya,

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Independent Consultant, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3447-0222

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S. Guy Mahiané,

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Avenir Health, Glastonbury, Connecticut, United States of America
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Naoko Ishikawa,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation World Health Organization, Regional Office for the Western Pacific, Manila, the Philippines

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2701-6892

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Linh-Vi Le,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation World Health Organization, Regional Office for the Western Pacific, Manila, the Philippines
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Morkor Newman-Owiredu,

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation World Health Organization, Sub-Saharan Africa Office, Brazzaville, Republic of Congo
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Nico Nagelkerke,

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Independent Consultant, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Lori Newman,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation USA Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Cambodia Country Office, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
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Mary Kamb,

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation USA Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Cambodia Country Office, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
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Nathalie Broutet,

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation USA Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of STD Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
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Melanie M. Taylor

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations USA Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of STD Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, World Health Organization, Dept. of Reproductive Health and Research, Geneva, Switzerland

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1786-6295

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Global burden of maternal and congenital syphilis and associated adverse birth outcomes—Estimates for 2016 and progress since 2012

Eline L. Korenromp,
Jane Rowley,
Monica Alonso,
Maeve B. Mello,
N. Saman Wijesooriya,
S. Guy Mahiané,
Naoko Ishikawa,
Linh-Vi Le,
Morkor Newman-Owiredu,
Nico Nagelkerke

Published: February 27, 2019
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0211720

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Corrected number in Results text: 61,000 neonatal deaths estimated in 2016

Posted by ekorenromp on 04 Jun 2019 at 14:56 GMT

As corresponding author, I herewith alert readers to a typing error in the Results text:

The sentence:
'Early fetal deaths or stillbirths accounted for 143,000 of the estimated 355,000 global ABOs in 2016. Clinical disease in infants accounted for another 109,000, neonatal deaths for 14,000 and pre-maturity/LBW for 41,000 (Fig 1).'

… should instead read:
Early fetal deaths or stillbirths accounted for 143,000 of the estimated 355,000 global ABOs in 2016. Clinical disease in infants accounted for another 109,000, neonatal deaths for 61,000 and pre-maturity/LBW for 41,000 (Fig 1).

.. then it is correct and consistent with the abstract, Figure 1 and with totals of CS and ABO estimates.

We apologize for any confusion.

No competing interests declared.

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Corrected number in Results text: 61,000 neonatal deaths estimated in 2016

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