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2011•Turkish Bulletin of Hygiene and Experimental BiologyOpen access

Evaluation of Rapid Plasma Reagin (RPR) and Treponema pallidum Hemagglutination Assay (TPHA) test results, which used in diagnosis of syphilis infections between 2005 - 2010

Tevhide Ziver, Pelin Yüksel, Zeynep Güngördü, Sena Izmirli, Deniz Gozde Celik, Ali Abdelkareem, Suat Sarıbaş, Hakan Yakar, Mustafa Aslan, Bekir Kocazeybek

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Objective: Syphilis is a systemic infectious disease, which has a tendency to become chronic and can last for years with symptomatic and asymptomatic periods.In this study, we aimed to evaluate the RPR and TPHA test results retrospectively in relation of these tests with demographic data.Serum samples derived from potential blood donors or patients during pre-operation routine testing were examined for syphilis.The examinations took place in the Serology/

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Objective: Syphilis is a systemic infectious disease, which has a tendency to become chronic and can last for years with symptomatic and asymptomatic periods.In this study, we aimed to evaluate the RPR and TPHA test results retrospectively in relation of these tests with demographic data.Serum samples derived from potential blood donors or patients during pre-operation routine testing were examined for syphilis.The examinations took place in the Serology/

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Objective: Syphilis is a systemic infectious disease, which has a tendency to become chronic and can last for years with symptomatic and asymptomatic periods.In this study, we aimed to evaluate the RPR and TPHA test results retrospectively in relation of these tests with demographic data.Serum samples derived from potential blood donors or patients during pre-operation routine testing were examined for syphilis.The examinations took place in the Serology/

Key concepts: Rapid plasma reagin, Treponema, Syphilis, Hemagglutination, Hemagglutination assay, Virology, Syphilis Serodiagnosis, Hemagglutination tests

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