Latent syphilis confirmed by polymerase chain reaction in 2 HIV-positive patients with inconclusive serologic test results

Archives of Dermatology

Volumn 141, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1169-1170

  Kuznetsov, Alexander V ^b   Burgdorf, Walter H C ^b   Prinz, Joerg C ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; PENICILLIN G;

ADULT; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FLUORESCENT TREPONEMA ANTIBODY TEST; HEMAGGLUTINATION TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; NOTE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAGIN TEST; SCREENING TEST; SEROLOGY; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; VENEREAL DISEASE REACTION TEST;

ADULT; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SYPHILIS SERODIAGNOSIS; SYPHILIS, LATENT;

EID: 25444500732     PISSN: 0003987X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archderm.141.9.1169     Document Type: Note

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