Guidelines for serological testing for syphilis

Guidelines for serological testing for syphilis

Although we may wish it were not so, syphilis, like the poor, will always be with us—at least for the foreseeable future. The levels of both are determined to a large extent, by political instability and socioeconomic deprivation. Overall, the incidence of syphilis is low in Western Europe (approximately 0.3 cases/ 100 000 in England in 1998) although it has reached epidemic proportions in the ...

Guidelines for serological testing for syphilis.

Serological tests for syphilis.

Many of the nontreponemal or serological tests for syphilis involve the detection of serum antibodies (reagin) which are not directed against a component of the causative organism itself but may arise as a result of pathological changes brought about by proliferation of Treponema pallidum in host tissue. Test antigens for the detection of reagin are lipoidal, the main active component being the...

Serological Tests for Syphilis.

In a pilot study by field-screening in two different sauna baths, a day-sauna and a night-sauna, 318 homosexual men were investigated for syphilis and hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) and its antibody (anti-HBs). Of the 134 visitors to the day-sauna 35 1-o were seroreactive for syphilis, four (3%) carried HBsAg, and 95 (70' 9%) anti-HBs. Of the 184 visitors to the night-sauna 33' 2% were ser...

Serological tests for syphilis in healthy rabbits.

Serological tests for syphilis (STS), as well as being important aids in the diagnosis of syphilis in man, are important in the study of experimental syphilis in animals. Rabbits not infected with Treponema pallidum sometimes show reactivity in one or another of the several available serological tests for the disease and, with the exception of the enzootic rabbit-spirochaetosis caused by Trepon...