Syphilis nucleic acid testing: Usefulness in syphilis confirmation?

Transfusion

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 737-739

  Dow, Brian C ^a   Franklin, Ian M ^a   Munro, Helen ^a   Gunson, Rory ^b  

^a SCOTTISH NATIONAL BLOOD TRANSFUSION SERVICE   (United Kingdom)

^b West of Scotland Specialist Virology Laboratory Gartnavel   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEIC ACID;

BACTERIUM DETECTION; HUMAN; LETTER; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; SERODIAGNOSIS; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BLOOD DONORS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DONOR SELECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MALE; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCOTLAND; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

EID: 77649226530     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2009.02516.x     Document Type: Letter

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