A variety of tests can be used to detect syphilis serolgy. The most common test for syphilis is therRapid plasma reagin (RPR) test, which is commonly performed as a screening test for syphilis and in monitoring patients' response to treatment. When this test is positive, another test, the...
Results of investigations Syphilis screen RPR + (titre >32) Lumbar puncture Polymorphs: 0; lymphocytes: 56; red blood cells: 0 Protein 0.92 g/L; glucose 3.3 mmol/L (serum 5.1) VDRL + (titre 128); TPHA + herpes simplex virus; PCR: negative (CSF) TPHA = Treponema pallidum haemagglutinati...
Nontreponemal tests do not detect antibodies specific to syphilis, whereas treponemal tests are confirmatory tests that detect antibodies specific to syphilis. RPR and VDRL tests are two different nontreponemal tests to diagnose syphilis. RPR is a more sensitive nontreponemal test that does not need ...
After testing the methodology on real data, we conclude that it can be successfully used to detect from mobility data the occurrence of a big event at a known specific place, estimate its start and end times within some error margin, and reveal the temporal patterns associated with the ...
And EIA is one of the newest serology methods and one of the most dependable. I, at one point, had become obsessive about my test results and convinced myself that I had a false negative. But my doctor told me that older tests like RPR were not as dependable, but false negatives are...