Serodiagnosis of Syphilis [PDF]
To the Editor:— We are in general agreement with the answer of your consultant regarding the handling of a 54-year-old housewife having a weekly reactive venereal disease research laboratory (VDRL) slide test and a reactive fluorescent treponemal antibody-absorption procedure with serum (FTA-ABS) test ( 203 : 996, 1968).
L. Nicholas, H. Beerman
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Performance of Treponema pallidum recombinant proteins in the serological diagnosis of syphilis. [PDF]
Syphilis serodiagnosis is challenging because distinct clinical forms of the infection may influence serological performance and discordant results between tests make clinical decisions difficult.
Ângelo Antônio Oliveira Silva +10 more
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Investigating latent syphilis in HIV treatment-experienced Ethiopians and response to therapy. [PDF]
ObjectivesWe investigated people with HIV (PWH) receiving combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) for latent syphilis infection prevalence, risk factors, treatment response, and neurosyphilis.MethodsA prospective follow-up study was conducted on PWH ...
Selamawit Girma, Wondwossen Amogne
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Data on the generation of rabbit infections and RPR titre changes in serum samples from syphilis patients at follow-up [PDF]
The data presented in this article are related to the research article entitled “Performance of novel infection phase-dependent antigens in syphilis serodiagnosis and treatment efficacy determination”.
Wen Liu +5 more
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Comparative analysis of the Traditional, Reverse and European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control algorithms and utilization of WHO NET software for syphilis serodiagnosis in a tertiary care hospital in Chengalpet, South India [PDF]
Background: Syphilis is a Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) caused by Treponema pallidum with significant public health importance. Based on the clinical presentation syphilis is classified into primary, secondary, tertiary and latent syphilis.
Abirami Lakshmy Jayachandran +3 more
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THE SERODIAGNOSIS OF SYPHILIS [PDF]
ABSTRACT It is my essential purpose to present the results of the analysis of 2,406 blood serums by the complement fixation test, using either Wassermann's or my own method of doing the test. Herewith are given six tables, giving in detail the results of the analysis and of a comparative study of 244 cases of known syphilitic or parasyphilitic ...
HIDEYO NOGUCHI
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SERODIAGNOSIS OF SYPHILIS [PDF]
The scientific medical world is ever ready to herald any advancement in the refinement in diagnosis of this world disease, especially in view of the fact that there is probably no infection which at times offers greater difficulties in diagnosis than syphilis. It is true that the therapeutic test is valuable, but it falls far short of being a practical
WILLIAM LITTERER
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Recombinant antigen-based immuno-slot blot method for serodiagnosis of syphilis [PDF]
Three recombinant antigens of Treponema pallidum Nichols strain were fused with GST, cloned and expressed in Escherichia coli, resulting in high levels of GST-rTp47 and GST-rTp17 expression, and supplementation with arginine tRNA for the AGR codon was ...
N.S. Sato +5 more
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Evaluating Frequency, Diagnostic Quality, and Cost of Lyme Borreliosis Testing in Germany: A Retrospective Model Analysis [PDF]
Background. Data on the economic impact of Lyme borreliosis (LB) on European health care systems is scarce. This project focused on the epidemiology and costs for laboratory testing in LB patients in Germany. Materials and Methods. We performed a sentinel analysis of epidemiological and medicoeconomic data for 2007 and 2008.
I. Müller +13 more
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THE SERODIAGNOSIS OF SYPHILIS [PDF]
In August 1934, at the request of the American Society of Clinical Pathologists, the United States Public Health Service sponsored a study for the evaluation of serodiagnostic tests for syphilis in the United States. A committee consisting of two syphilologists, two clinical pathologists and one representative from the Public Health Service was ...
H. H. HAZEN
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