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Sexually Transmitted Disease
Studies conducted at H. Young et al on sexually transmitted disease recently published
March 3rd, 2009
In this recently published study, investigators in Scotland conducted a study "To determine the sensitivity and specificity of the Architect Syphilis Chemiluminescence Assay (CLIA): a new highly automated screening test for syphilis. To establish the sensitivity of the Architect Syphilis assay we tested 129 stored sera from serologically characterised cases of untreated syphilis." "The sera were selected to contain a disproportionately high number of primary infections. There were 79 primary infections, 29 secondary infections, 9 early latent infections and 12 latent syphilis of unknown duration. To establish the specificity of the assay we tested 1107 sera that had...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2009-03-03)
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