Syphilis screening among female sex workers in Bangalore, India: Comparison of point-of-care testing and traditional serological approaches

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 193-198

  Mishra, Sharmistha ^a   Naik, Balaji ^b   Venugopal, B ^b   Kudur, Prakash ^b   Washington, Reynold ^b,c,d   Becker, Marissa ^c   Kenneth, John ^d   Jayanna, Krishnamurthy ^b,d   Ramesh, Banadakoppa M ^b,c   Isac, Shajy ^b   Boily, Marie Claude ^e   Blanchard, James F ^c   Moses, Stephen ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b KARNATAKA HEALTH PROMOTION TRUST   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^d ST JOHN'S NATIONAL ACADEMY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (India)

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POINT OF CARE TESTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTITUTION; REAGIN TEST; SCREENING TEST; SEROLOGY; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM HEMAGGLUTINATION TEST;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; MASS SCREENING; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTITUTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYPHILIS; SYPHILIS SERODIAGNOSIS;

EID: 77953802080     PISSN: 13684973     EISSN: 14723263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/sti.2009.038778     Document Type: Article

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