An evaluation of the relative sensitivities of the venereal disease research laboratory test and the Treponema pallidum particle agglutination test among patients diagnosed with primary syphilis

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1016-1018

  Creegan, Linda ^a,b   Bauer, Heidi M ^a   Samuel, Michael C ^a   Klausner, Jeffrey ^b   Liska, Sally ^c   Bolan, Gail ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b SAN FRANCISCO DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c San Francisco Public Health Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGLUTINATION TEST; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; REAGIN TEST; SERODIAGNOSIS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; UNITED STATES; VENEREAL DISEASE REACTION TEST;

AGGLUTINATION TESTS; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYPHILIS; SYPHILIS SERODIAGNOSIS;

EID: 36349019736     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OLQ.0b013e3181124473     Document Type: Article

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