High Agreement of the BioPlex 2200 Syphilis Total & RPR Assay with the Confirmatory Treponemal Test on Weak Positive Screening Samples

J Clin Microbiol. 2019 Sep 24;57(10):e00836-19. doi: 10.1128/JCM.00836-19. Print 2019 Oct.

Authors

Emilie De Maertelaere^#¹, Casper Van den Borre^#¹, Sara Bourgois¹, Marjan Van Esbroeck², Sandra Deridder¹, Sofie Blomme¹, Elizaveta Padalko³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Laboratory Medicine, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium.
² Department of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium.
³ Department of Laboratory Medicine, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium elizaveta.padalko@uzgent.be.

^# Contributed equally.

No abstract available

Keywords: serology; syphilis.

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Adult
Aged
Female
HIV Infections / diagnosis
HIV Infections / immunology
HIV Infections / virology
Humans
Male
Mass Screening
Middle Aged
Syphilis / diagnosis*
Syphilis / epidemiology
Syphilis Serodiagnosis / methods*
Treponema pallidum*
Young Adult