Biological false positive Wassermann reactions in Uganda.
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Biological false positive Wassermann reactions in Uganda.
In a country like Uganda where syphilis is common, yaws occurs, and many of the diseases known to cause false positive Wassermann reactions (such as malaria, leprosy, relapsing fever, smallpox vaccination, trypanosomiasis, lymphogranuloma venereum, and infectious hepatitis) exist, it seemed desirable to obtain some background information about the frequency of positive serological tests for syp...
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عنوان ژورنال: Sexually Transmitted Infections
سال: 1966
ISSN: 1368-4973
DOI: 10.1136/sti.42.4.272