An Evaluation of a Novel Dual Treponemal/Nontreponemal Point-of-Care Test for Syphilis as a Tool to Distinguish Active from Past Treated Infection

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 184-191

  Causer, Louise M ^a   Kaldor, John M ^a   Conway, Damian P ^a   Leslie, David E ^b   Denham, Ian ^c   Karapanagiotidis, Theo ^b   Ryan, Claire ^d   Wand, Handan ^a   Anderson, David A ^d   Robertson, Peter W ^e   McNulty, Anna M ^f   Donovan, Basil ^a   Fairley, Christopher K ^f   Guy, Rebecca J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b VICTORIAN INFECTIOUS DISEASES REFERENCE LABORATORY   (Australia)

^c MELBOURNE SEXUAL HEALTH CENTRE   (Australia)

^d BURNET INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^e PRINCE OF WALES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^f MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

diagnosis; point of care test; syphilis

Indexed keywords

REAGINIC ANTIBODY; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIAN; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD SAMPLING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POINT OF CARE TESTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYPHILIS; TITRIMETRY; ADOLESCENT; BLOOD; EVALUATION STUDY; IMMUNOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PROCEDURES; SYPHILIS SEROLOGY; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOASSAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POINT-OF-CARE TESTING; PREVALENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYPHILIS; SYPHILIS SERODIAGNOSIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84936760809     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/civ243     Document Type: Article

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