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Treponema pallidum infection rate in patients attending the general hospital of Benguela, Angola

Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, 2023
Introduction: The objectives of this study were to estimate the rate of infection by Treponema pallidum and co-infection with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) in individuals attending the General Hospital of Benguela (GHB), Angola, to verify the Rapid
Lesya Yefimenko, Carolina Gasparinho, Ângela Lopes, Rita Castro, Filomena Pereira   +4 more
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Performance evaluation of VITROS syphilis Treponema pallidum agglutination assay in blood donor samples by using centers for disease control and prevention reverse sequence algorithm

Global Journal of Transfusion Medicine, 2019
Background: VITROS syphilis Treponema pallidum agglutination (VSTPA) assay is a treponemal assay for the detection of antitreponemal antibody in the human serum or plasma using enhanced chemiluminescence technology.
Amardeep Pathak, Manushri Sharma, Narender Tejwani, Anurag Mehta   +3 more
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Syphilis notifications among pregnant women in Campo Grande, state of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, 2011 to 2017

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2020
INTRODUCTION Syphilis is a sexually transmitted infection caused by Treponema pallidum. Considering the high rates of syphilis in pregnancy and congenital syphilis reported in Brazil in the past, and their serious consequences, this study described the ...
Cássia de Paula Pires, Caroliny Oviedo Fernandes, Everton Falcão de Oliveira, Sandra Luzinete Felix de Freitas, Rodrigo Guimarães dos Santos Almeida   +4 more
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Laboratory Diagnostic Tools for Syphilis: Current Status and Future Prospects

Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2021
With the increasing number of patients infected with syphilis in the past 20 years, early diagnosis and early treatment are essential to decline syphilis prevalence.
Yuting Luo, Yafeng Xie, Yongjian Xiao
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A laboratory-based evaluation of four rapid point-of-care tests for syphilis. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2014
BACKGROUND: Syphilis point-of-care tests may reduce morbidity and ongoing transmission by increasing the proportion of people rapidly treated. Syphilis stage and co-infection with HIV may influence test performance.
Louise M Causer, John M Kaldor, Christopher K Fairley, Basil Donovan, Theo Karapanagiotidis, David E Leslie, Peter W Robertson, Anna M McNulty, David Anderson, Handan Wand, Damian P Conway, Ian Denham, Claire Ryan, Rebecca J Guy   +13 more
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Serosurvey of anti-treponema pallidum (syphilis), anti-hepatitis C virus and anti-HIV antibodies in homeless persons of São Paulo city, southeastern Brazil

Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2021
Homeless persons have been considered as one of the most susceptible populations to sexually transmitted infections. In Brazil, these population experienced an increase of 140% from 2012 to 2020.
Laís Giuliani Felipetto, Pedro Irineu Teider-Junior, Felipe Fortino Verdan da Silva, Anahi Chechia do Couto, Louise Bach Kmetiuk, Camila Marinelli Martins, Leila Sabrina Ullmann, Jorge Timenetsky, Andrea Pires dos Santos, Alexander Welker Biondo   +9 more
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Canadian Public Health Laboratory Network laboratory Guidelines for the Use of Serological Tests (excluding point-of-care tests) for the Diagnosis of Syphilis in Canada

Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology, 2015
Syphilis, caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum subsp. pallidum, is an infection recognized since antiquity. It was first reported at the end of the 15th century in Europe.
Paul N Levett, Kevin Fonseca, Raymond SW Tsang, Kamran Kadkhoda, Bouchra Serhir, Sandra M Radons, Muhammad Morshed   +6 more
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Atypical manifestations of recent syphilis: study of 19 cases, [PDF]

Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia
Background: Syphilis is one of the most common diseases that start with genital ulcers. Aside from the initial, classic ulcerative lesion of syphilis, called hard chancre, atypical presentations are common, with erosions, erythema, edema, balanitis, and ...
José Carlos Sardinha, Livia Lima de Lima, Marcel Heibel, Antonio Schettini, Sinesio Talhari, Carolina Talhari   +5 more
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Epidemiological profile of congenital syphilis in the municipality of São Luís, 2008–2017

DST, 2020
Introduction: Congenital syphilis is a disease of great magnitude due to increasing numbers of new annual cases, affecting a large contingent of children, which translates into high incidence rates. The occurrence of syphilis cases evidences failures in
Alessandra Coelho Vivekananda Meireles, Diana Maria Silveira da Silva, Wendel Alencar de Oliveira, Vanise Frazão Ribeiro, Dorilea Maria da Silva de Sousa Fernandes, Marconi Relnner Mesquita Viana, Silvana Mendes Costa, Ana Cristina Brandão Machado   +7 more
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Effect of syphilitic rabbit sera taken at different periods after infection on treponemal motility, treponemal attachment to mammalian cells in vitro, and treponemal infection in rabbits. [PDF]

Sexually Transmitted Infections, 1983
The time course of antibody synthesis during syphilis was studied in experimentally infected rabbits. A rapid antibody response was seen; the rabbits became positive in both the rapid plasma reagin (RPR) test and Treponema pallidum haemagglutination assay (TPHA) by nine days after infection. Treponemal immobilising antibodies were also seen as early as
G H, Wong, B, Steiner, S, Graves
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