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IC 16-41-15-10 — Syphilis testing during pregnancy; duty of physician

Chapter 15. Communicable Disease: Prevention and Control of Venereal Diseases

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Sec. 10. A physician who diagnoses a pregnancy of a woman shall take or cause to be taken a sample of blood: (1) at the time of diagnosis of pregnancy; and (2) during the third trimester of pregnancy, if the woman belongs to a high risk population for which the Centers for Disease Control “Sexually Transmitted Diseases Treatment Guidelines" recommend a third trimester syphilis testing; and shall submit each sample to an approved laboratory for a standard serological test for syphilis.

As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.24. Amended by P.L.255-1996, SEC.16.

Source: official publisher (2026 edition)