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An Audit of VDRL Testing from an STI Clinic in India: Analysing the Present Scenario with Focus on Estimating and Optimizing the Turnaround Time [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2015
Background: Timeliness of reporting is of utmost importance to limit the spread of syphilis. The present analysis was undertaken to evaluate the turnaround time of syphilis testing (mainly Venereal disease research laboratory /VDRL test) in a ...
Bhanu Mehra, Preena Bhalla, Deepti Rawat, Shikhar Saxena   +3 more
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Nodular secondary syphilis in an immunocompetent woman: Case report and literature review

Dermatologica Sinica, 2018
A 46-year-old woman presented with slightly itching, painless erythematous nodules on the face, neck, and genital area. Initial differential diagnoses included cutaneous lymphoma. We performed punch biopsy on her neck.
Jee Hee Son, Sook Young Park, Bo Young Chung, Hye One Kim, Hee Jin Cho, Chun Wook Park   +5 more
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The trade-off between accuracy and accessibility of syphilis screening assays. [PDF]

, 2013
The availability of rapid and sensitive methods to diagnose syphilis facilitates screening of pregnant women, which is one of the most cost-effective health interventions available.
Pieter W. Smit, Todd Jim, Mabey, David, Peeling, Rosanna W, Clark, Benjamin, Mngara Julius, Smit, Pieter W, Aura Andreasen, Mabey David, Changalucha John, Todd, Jim, Urassa, Mark, Julius Mngara, Smit Pieter W., Urassa Mark, Pieter W Smit, Changalucha, John, Benjamin Clark, Andreasen, Aura, Zaba Basia, Peeling Rosanna W., Clark Benjamin, Andreasen Aura, John Changalucha, Mark Urassa, Zaba, Basia, Mngara, Julius, David Mabey, Rosanna W. Peeling, Basia Zaba, Rosanna W Peeling, Jim Todd   +31 more
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Sensitivity and specificity of a syphilis rapid diagnostic test in blood donors’ samples

Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2023
Rapid Diagnostic Tests (RDT) are useful to identify syphilis cases, particularly for hard-to-reach populations and if laboratory services are scarce. However, RDT performance may be suboptimal.
Carolina Arai, Juliano Alves Lemos-Machado, Marcelo Vivolo Aun, Carolina Bonet-Bub, Leandro Dinalli Santos, Angelica Espinosa Miranda, Vivian I. Avelino-Silva   +6 more
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Antenatal Screening and Maternal and Congenital Syphilis at Ga-Rankuwa Hospital

South African Family Practice, 1991
No abstract available.
U.M. Hallbauer, H.H. Crewe-Brown, J.B. Ellis, M.F. Mahomed, G.S. Fehrsen   +4 more
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To serodiagnosis of syphilis

Kazan medical journal, 2021
Stiden (Bp. Delo, 1924, No. 10) of all sedimentary reactions proposed for the diagnosis of syphilis, especially recommends the Kahn reaction, which, on the one hand, is distinguished by the simplicity of technical implementation, and on the other hand, it is not inferior in accuracy and sensitivity to the Wassermann reaction.
openaire   +1 more source

Rapid Point-of-Care Tests Using Staphylococcal Protein A Can Detect Early IgM Responses in HIV-1 and Treponema pallidum Infections

Microbiology Spectrum, 2022
Serological assays detecting IgM antibodies in addition to IgG antibodies have a diagnostic advantage in finding early infections. Staphylococcal protein A (SpA), widely used as an antibody-detecting reagent in various immunoassays, is considered to have
Valentina A. Schmidt, Victoria Rose Stevens, Javan Esfandiari, Konstantin P. Lyashchenko   +3 more
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Effect of the coverage of rapid tests for syphilis in primary care on the syphilis in pregnancy in Brazil

Revista de Saúde Pública, 2021
OBJECTIVE: To analyze the effect of rapid tests coverage in Primary Care on syphilis detection rate in pregnant women in Brazil, in municipalities with more than 100,000 inhabitants.
Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, Tatyana Maria Silva de Souza Rosendo, Marquiony Marques dos Santos, Ana Karla Bezerra Lopes, Kenio Costa de Lima   +4 more
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A STUDY OF SERODIAGNOSIS OF SYPHILIS

Journal of the Japan Society of Blood Transfusion, 1971
Isao HARA, Masaharu KAWASE, Kimiyoshi ONO   +2 more
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Natural history of primary syphilis: clinical and serological aspects of chancre concurrent with Follmann’s balanitis

DST, 2022
Introduction: Primary syphilis is classically represented by a hard chancre, but other rare forms such as Follmann’s balanitis are occasionally described.
John Verrinder Veasey, Sandy Daniele Munhoz, Laura Rodrigues Moda Francisco   +2 more
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