EXTENSIVE research in the serology of syphilis during the last decade has resulted in the development of a multiplicity of tests, many of which have had limited practical use. Physicians have scarcely ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Recent CDC data showed a 17% increase in syphilis in the U.S. from 2021 to 2022. New syphilis testing ...

Infants whose mothers had syphilis during pregnancy were studied to determine how often exposed newborns with normal physical examinations and nonreactive nontreponemal serologic tests had abnormal ...

The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol. 165, No. 6 (Jun., 1992), pp. 1124-1126 (3 pages) The prevalence of biologic false-positive (BFP) reactions for syphilis (reactive rapid plasma reagin [RPR] ...

THE evaluation of the specificity of the various tests for the serologic diagnosis of syphilis has gone through two phases. At one time both the complement-fixation and flocculation tests were ...

This week, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cleared the way for putting the first at-home, over-the-counter test to detect syphilis antibodies in human blood. Test-kits for syphilis for the ...

Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are common. According to the World Health Organization, more than 1 million STIs are acquired every day across the globe. Syphilis is one of the most common STIs ...