Evaluation of a new recombinant antigen-based virotech Treponema pallidum screen ELISA for diagnosis of syphilis

Clinical Laboratory

Volumn 59, Issue 5-6, 2013, Pages 523-529

  Busse, Clemens ^a   Navid, Mojdeh Heidary ^b   Strubel, Andreas ^a   Schnitzler, Paul ^b  

^a SEKISUI CHEMICAL CO LTD   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

ELISA; Screening; Serology; Syphilis; Treponema pallidum

Indexed keywords

RECOMBINANT ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT TREPONEMA ANTIBODY TEST; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREGNANT WOMAN; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYPHILIS; SYPHILIS SEROLOGY; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM HEMAGGLUTINATION TEST; VIROTECH TREPONEMA PALLIDUM SCREEN ELISA;

ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMANS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYPHILIS; SYPHILIS SERODIAGNOSIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

TREPONEMA; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

EID: 84879343036     PISSN: 14336510     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7754/Clin.Lab.2012.120519     Document Type: Article

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