The development and validation of dried blood spots for external quality assurance of syphilis serology

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Smit, Pieter W ^a,b   van der Vlis, Thomas ^a   Mabey, David ^b   Changalucha, John ^c   Mngara, Julius ^c   Clark, Benjamin D ^b,c   Andreasen, Aura ^b,d   Todd, Jim ^b,c   Urassa, Mark ^c   Zaba, Basia ^b   Peeling, Rosanna W ^b  

^a LEIDEN CYTOLOGY AND PATHOLOGY LABORATORY   (Netherlands)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Tanzania)

^d National Institute for Medical Research   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

DBS; Dried blood spots; Evaluation; Sensitivity; Syphilis; Treponema pallidum

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGGLUTINATION TEST; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRIED BLOOD SPOT TESTING; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POINT OF CARE TESTING; QUALITY CONTROL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYPHILIS; SYPHILIS SEROLOGY; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM HEMAGGLUTINATION TEST;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGGLUTINATION TESTS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYPHILIS SERODIAGNOSIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84874216414     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-13-102     Document Type: Article

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