Limitations of the Reiter Protein Complement-Fixation (RPCF) Test
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Specificity and sensitivity of the Reiter protein complement-fixation (RPCF) test. Report on 1,400 selected sera.
The reliability of the sero-diagnosis of syphilis depends on the specificity and the sensitivity of the tests used. The specificity of a test is determined by the nature of the antigen; the sensitivity depends mainly on the technique by which the test is performed. The most specific though not the most sensitive test at the moment is, without doubt, the T. pallidum immobilization (TPI) test of ...
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The immunological basis for the use of the RPCF test in the sero-diagnosis of syphilis is the fact that Treponema pallidum and Treponema reiteri share a genus-specific protein antigen. Although the Reiter protein antigen appears to be a lipo-polysaccharideprotein complex (de Bruijn, 1959), it has been assumed that only the protein component is responsible for the reactivity with syphilitic seru...
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عنوان ژورنال: Sexually Transmitted Infections
سال: 1962
ISSN: 1368-4973
DOI: 10.1136/sti.38.3.131