Rapid plasma reagin
PEDIATRIC USE OF THE RAPID PLASMA REAGIN (CIRCLE) CARD TEST
... institutions where routine serologic testing for syphilis is felt to be desirable, the Rapid Plasma Reagin ( Circle) Card Test has been. found to be a simple, practical, and inex- pensiv[r] ...
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EDTA treated plasma in the rapid plasma reagin card test and the toluidine red unheated serum test for serodiagnosis of syphilis
... Both the rapid plasma reagin RPR 18-mm circle card test and the toluidine red unheated serum test TRUST were designed to be more rapid than the Venereal Disease Research Laboratory slide[r] ...
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Evaluation of a new rapid plasma reagin card test as a screening test for syphilis
... Used as a basis for comparison with the Dade card test were the 18-mm standard rapid plasma reagin standard RPR card test and the Venereal Disease Research Laboratory VDRL slide test, us[r] ...
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Usefulness of Automated Latex Turbidimetric Rapid Plasma Reagin Test for Diagnosis and Evaluation of Treatment Response in Syphilis in Comparison with Manual Card Test: a Prospective Cohort Study
... turbidimetric rapid plasma reagin (RPR) assay, compared to the conventional manual card test (serial 2-fold dilution method), for the diagnosis of syphilis and evaluation of treatment response ...
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Comparison of an automated rapid plasma reagin (RPR) test with the conventional RPR card test in syphilis testing
... treponemal reagin tests, such as the Venereal Disease Research Laboratory (VDRL), rapid plasma reagin (RPR) and treponemal tests such as the Treponema pallidum haemagglutin- ation assay ...
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Comparison of the Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF) Toluidine Red Unheated Serum Test and the CSF Rapid Plasma Reagin Test with the CSF Venereal Disease Research Laboratory Test for Diagnosis of Neurosyphilis among HIV Negative Syphilis Patients in China
... the rapid plasma reagin test (RPR) and the toluidine red unheated serum test (TRUST) have similar test principles and performance using serum specimens, are easier to perform, and are available as ...
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The performance of rapid plasma reagin (RPR) titer in HIV negative general paresis after neurosyphilis therapy
... ive rapid plasma reagin (RPR) test in CSF is considered to be the diagnostic of neurosyphilis [2, 3], but this test may be nonreactive in patients with GP depending on the criteria used to define ...
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Comparison of Manual and Fully Automated AIX1000 Rapid Plasma Reagin Assays for Laboratory Diagnosis of Syphilis
... Study specimens. We first performed a retrospective pilot study, consisting of analysis of 100 stored specimens that had been tested with a manual rapid plasma reagin (RPR) test performed in the ...
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Comparison of a new rapid plasma reagin card test with the standard rapid plasma reagin 18 mm circle card test and the venereal disease research laboratory slide test for serodiagnosis of syphilis
... The rapid plasma reagin RPR card test manufactured by Beckman Instruments, Inc., was compared, qualitatively and quantitatively, with the Venereal Disease Research Laboratory VDRL slide [r] ...
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Reactivity of microhemagglutination, fluorescent treponemal antibody absorption, Venereal Disease Research Laboratory, and rapid plasma reagin tests in primary syphilis
... Nontreponemal cardiolipin procedures are used to screen sera for reactivity, whereas treponemal tests, such as the fluorescent treponemal antibody absorption FTA-ABS test and the more re[r] ...
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Improving the screening of blood donors with syphilis rapid diagnostic test (RDT) and rapid plasma reagin (RPR) in low and middle income countries (LMIC)
... these rapid tests, if they have a low positive predictive value (PPV) - high false positive rate – and are used in blood banks, then apparently many donors will be deferred when they carry no risk to the blood ...
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Prevalence of glucose 6 phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency in Cameroonian blood donors
... via rapid plasma reagin test (RPR, ACON Laboratories, San Diego, CA), hepatitis B surface antigen using an enzyme immunoassay (EIA, ACON Laborato- ries, Healthmate rapid hepatitis C viral ...
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Retrospective Review of Treponema pallidum PCR and Serology Results: Are Both Tests Necessary?
... quantitative rapid plasma reagin (RPR) flocculation test was performed with the BD Macro-Vue RPR card test kit (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Waltham, MA, USA) as per the manufacturer’s ...
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Unheated serum reagin test as a quantitative test for syphilis
... In this study, the tests used for comparison with the USR test were the VDRL slide and the rapid plasma reagin RPR 1 18-mm circle card tests, two standard nontreponemal tests for.. Sera [r] ...
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A lung abscess caused by secondary syphilis – the utility of polymerase chain reaction techniques in transbronchial biopsy: a case report
... Case presentation: A 34-year-old man presented with cough and swelling of the right inguinal nodes. A physical examination revealed erythematous papular rash over the palms, soles and abdomen. A 4 cm mass in the right ...
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Novel Point of Care Test for Simultaneous Detection of Nontreponemal and Treponemal Antibodies in Patients with Syphilis
... We describe a point-of-care immunochromatographic test for the simultaneous detection of both nontreponemal and treponemal antibodies in the sera of patients with syphilis that acts as both a screening and a confirmatory ...
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Toluidine red unheated serum test, a nontreponemal test for syphilis
... The quantitative agreement ±1 twofold dilution between TRUST and the rapid plasma reagin card test was 100%; between TRUST and the Venereal Disease Research Laboratory slide test it was [r] ...
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Optimization of nitrided gate dielectrics by plasma-assisted and rapid thermal processing
... The stopping power of nitride films prepared by remote plasma processing and subsequent RTAs is simply associ- ated with the high areal density of N atoms obtained in this way. The areal density of N atoms in a ...
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Photoresponsivity enhancement inmonolayer MoS2 by rapid O2:Ar plasma treatment
... after plasma treatment is thus a direct consequence of the additional charge present in the device, as demonstrated by higher current levels in the gate ...
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Validation of HPLC and Liquid-Liquid Extraction Methods for Warfarin Detection in Human Plasma and its Application to a Pharmacokinetics Study
... In this study, we developed a new HPLC method to measure plasma warfarin levels using a simple UV detector and a simple liquid-liquid extraction (LLE) method. LLE was used because it has been reported to be more ...
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