rapid plasma reagin test
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, ...
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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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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 ...
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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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Retrospective Review of Treponema pallidum PCR and Serology Results: Are Both Tests Necessary?
... PCR test provides any additional diag- nostic information over syphilis serology (chemiluminescence immunoassay [CMIA], Treponema pallidum particle agglutination [TPPA] assay, and the rapid plasma ...
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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)
... Irrespective of the advantages of 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 don[r] ...
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The performance of rapid plasma reagin (RPR) titer in HIV negative general paresis after neurosyphilis therapy
... titers correlated with resolution of CSF parameters in per- sons with neurosyphilis, and normalization of serum RPR titer correctly predicted treatment success of neurosyphilis [10]. However, we found a four-fold decline ...
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A lung abscess caused by secondary syphilis – the utility of polymerase chain reaction techniques in transbronchial biopsy: a case report
... The rapid plasma reagin (RPR) and Treponema pallidum hemagglutination test (TPHA) revealed titers 1:64 and 1:5,120, respectively, although Human immunodeficiency virus testing was ...
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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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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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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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Comparison of Manual and Fully Automated AIX1000 Rapid Plasma Reagin Assays for Laboratory Diagnosis of Syphilis
... manual rapid plasma reagin (RPR) test performed in the Clinical Immunology Laboratory at the University of North Carolina Hospitals ...RPR test results obtained with 50 nonreactive (NR) ...
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Comparison of an automated rapid plasma reagin (RPR) test with the conventional RPR card test in syphilis testing
... card test showed better sensitivity than the HBI HiSens Auto RPR LTIA test in syphilis screening, although the automated RPR test does have some advantages in the clinical ...RPR test reduced ...
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Novel Point of Care Test for Simultaneous Detection of Nontreponemal and Treponemal Antibodies in Patients with Syphilis
... and rapid plasma reagin (RPR) tests for syphilis ...(6) test, and enzyme im- munoassays have been used as confirmatory tests (3, 7, ...
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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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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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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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Detection of Cytomegalovirus in Plasma and Cerebrospinal Fluid Specimens from Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infected Patients by the AMPLICOR CMV Test
... Analysis of CSF specimens demonstrated that both the PCR assay and the antigen assay detected the same CMV-positive specimens. Clinical information suggested that these CMV- positive CSF specimens were collected from ...
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Rapid detection of invasive Mycobacterium chimaera disease via a novel plasma based next generation sequencing test
... contrast, plasma NGS detected this pathogen in a median of 4 days, and in 78% of cases, this provided the first microbiologic ...cases, plasma NGS detected ...
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Vol 31, No 5 (2018)
... software (IBM SPSS, Chicago, IL). The characteristics of our group of patients and the time of administration of the scale were analysed by using descriptive statistics. Cron- bach’s alpha was considered as an indicator ...
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