Are Treponema pallidum Specific Rapid and Point-of-Care Tests for Syphilis Accurate Enough for Screening in Resource Limited Settings? Evidence from a Meta-Analysis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Jafari, Yalda ^a   Peeling, Rosanna W ^b   Shivkumar, Sushmita ^a   Claessens, Christiane ^c   Joseph, Lawrence ^a   Pai, Nitika Pant ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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

^c INSTITUT NATIONAL DE SANTÉ PUBLIQUE DU QUÉBEC   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONGENITAL SYPHILIS; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MASS SCREENING; NEWBORN MORTALITY; POINT OF CARE TESTING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STILLBIRTH; SYPHILIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

ADULT; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HEALTH RESOURCES; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX WORKERS; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

EID: 84874502751     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054695     Document Type: Article

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