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===Congenital=== {{main|Congenital syphilis}} Congenital syphilis is that which is transmitted during pregnancy or during birth.<ref name=Wood09/> Two-thirds of syphilitic infants are born without symptoms.<ref name=Wood09/> Common symptoms that develop over the first couple of years of life include [[hepatosplenomegaly|enlargement of the liver and spleen]] (70%), rash (70%), fever (40%), neurosyphilis (20%), and [[pneumonitis|lung inflammation]] (20%).<ref name=Wood09/> If untreated, [[late congenital syphilis]] may occur in 40%, including [[saddle nose]] deformation, [[Higouménakis' sign]], [[saber shin]], or [[Clutton's joints]] among others.<ref name=Wood09/> Infection during pregnancy is also associated with [[miscarriage]].<ref name="Will2013">{{cite book|title=Williams Obstetrics|last=Cunningham|first=F, Leveno KJ, Bloom SL, Spong CY, Dashe JS, Hoffman BL, Casey BM, Sheffield JS|publisher=McGraw-Hill|year=2013|pages=5|chapter=Abortion}}</ref> The main dental defects seen in congenital syphilis are the peg-shaped, notched incisors known as [[Hutchinson's teeth]] and so-called [[mulberry molars]] (also known as Moon or Fournier molars), defective permanent molars with rounded, deformed crowns resembling a [[mulberry]].<ref name="Phillips">{{cite journal |author1=Nissanka-Jayasuriya EH |author2=Odell EW |author3=Phillips C |date=September 2016 |title=Dental Stigmata of Congenital Syphilis: A Historic Review With Present Day Relevance. |journal=Head Neck Pathol |volume=10 |issue=3 |pages=327–331 |pmid=26897633|pmc=4972761 |doi=10.1007/s12105-016-0703-z}}</ref>
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