Table 42. Congenital Syphilis - Reported Cases and Rates of Reported Cases in Infants by Year of Birth, by State/Area and Region in Alphabetical Order, United States and Outlying Areas, 2009-2013

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State/Area*	Cases					Rates per 100,000 Live Births
State/Area*	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013
Alabama	13	9	10	4	2	20.8	15.0	16.7	6.7	3.3
Alaska	0	0	0	1	1	0.0	0.0	0.0	8.7	8.7
Arizona	28	16	15	14	13	30.2	18.3	17.1	16.0	14.9
Arkansas	10	11	15	11	12	25.1	28.5	38.9	28.5	31.1
California	63	39	40	35	56	12.0	7.6	7.8	6.9	11.0
Colorado	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Connecticut	2	2	0	0	0	5.1	5.3	0.0	0.0	0.0
Delaware	1	2	0	1	1	8.7	17.6	0.0	8.8	8.8
District of Columbia	0	1	1	0	2	0.0	10.9	10.9	0.0	21.8
Florida	18	20	33	37	37	8.1	9.3	15.4	17.2	17.2
Georgia	14	18	10	16	20	9.9	13.4	7.5	11.9	14.9
Hawaii	1	0	0	0	0	5.3	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Idaho	1	1	0	1	0	4.2	4.3	0.0	4.3	0.0
Illinois	16	27	18	28	23	9.3	16.3	10.9	16.9	13.9
Indiana	1	0	0	0	0	1.2	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Iowa	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Kansas	3	0	0	0	0	7.2	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Kentucky	2	0	2	2	4	3.5	0.0	3.6	3.6	7.2
Louisiana	11	33	18	33	32	16.9	52.9	28.9	52.9	51.3
Maine	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Maryland	31	22	24	12	14	41.3	29.8	32.5	16.3	19.0
Massachusetts	0	1	0	1	4	0.0	1.4	0.0	1.4	5.5
Michigan	5	5	8	7	9	4.3	4.4	7.0	6.1	7.9
Minnesota	1	0	0	1	0	1.4	0.0	0.0	1.5	0.0
Mississippi	8	9	6	0	0	18.6	22.5	15.0	0.0	0.0
Missouri	6	2	1	1	3	7.6	2.6	1.3	1.3	3.9
Montana	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Nebraska	0	0	0	1	0	0.0	0.0	0.0	3.9	0.0
Nevada	3	5	3	1	2	8.0	13.9	8.3	2.8	5.6
New Hampshire	0	0	0	1	0	0.0	0.0	0.0	7.8	0.0
New Jersey	7	3	5	1	0	6.3	2.8	4.7	0.9	0.0
New Mexico	0	0	0	1	2	0.0	0.0	0.0	3.6	7.2
New York	15	17	13	8	11	6.0	7.0	5.3	3.3	4.5
North Carolina	10	10	6	2	1	7.9	8.2	4.9	1.6	0.8
North Dakota	1	0	0	0	0	11.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Ohio	8	10	13	19	17	5.5	7.2	9.3	13.7	12.2
Oklahoma	2	0	2	0	0	3.7	0.0	3.8	0.0	0.0
Oregon	0	0	0	1	0	0.0	0.0	0.0	2.2	0.0
Pennsylvania	5	3	5	6	2	3.4	2.1	3.5	4.2	1.4
Rhode Island	1	0	0	0	0	8.7	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
South Carolina	0	1	0	7	1	0.0	1.7	0.0	12.0	1.7
South Dakota	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Tennessee	13	11	8	2	2	15.8	13.8	10.1	2.5	2.5
Texas	128	105	99	78	75	31.8	27.2	25.6	20.2	19.4
Utah	0	1	0	0	0	0.0	1.9	0.0	0.0	0.0
Vermont	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Virginia	2	1	0	1	2	1.9	1.0	0.0	1.0	1.9
Washington	1	1	2	0	0	1.1	1.2	2.3	0.0	0.0
West Virginia	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Wisconsin	0	1	1	0	0	0.0	1.5	1.5	0.0	0.0
Wyoming	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
U.S. TOTAL	431	387	358	334	348	10.4	9.7	9.0	8.4	8.7
Northeast	30	26	23	17	17	4.5	4.0	3.5	2.6	2.6
Midwest	41	45	41	57	52	4.7	5.3	4.9	6.8	6.2
South	263	253	234	206	205	16.7	16.6	15.4	13.5	13.5
West	97	63	60	54	74	9.5	6.4	6.1	5.5	7.5
Guam	0	0	0	0	1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	29.3
Puerto Rico	6	2	2	1	1	13.4	4.7	4.7	2.4	2.4
Virgin Islands	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
OUTLYING AREAS	6	2	2	1	2	12.0	4.2	4.2	2.1	4.2
TOTAL	437	389	360	335	350	10.5	9.6	8.9	8.3	8.6

*Mother's state of residence was used to assign case.

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- Division of STD Prevention, National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention