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Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Disease
Scientists at General Hospital publish new data on clinical microbiology and infectious disease
January 6th, 2009
According to a study from Madrid, Spain, "Syphilis re-emergence is a cause of concern. Our objective was to quantify the laboratory workload, incident cases and patient follow-up that syphilis has generated for 11 years in a large teaching hospital." "An ecologic study including all samples submitted for syphilis serodiagnosis at our hospital from January 1994 to December 2004 was undertaken. Our laboratory processed 58,832 samples for syphilis serodiagnosis. From 1994 to 2004, the number of samples submitted for syphilis testing dropped by 11% (95% confidence interval [CI] 10-12, p< 0.001). Syphilis was diagnosed in 443 patients. The incidences were 11, 3 and 8 per...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2009-01-06)
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