Performance Assessment of Treponemal and Nontreponemal Tests for the Diagnosis of Acquired Syphilis
In this study, we analyzed one NTT (Venereal Disease Research Laboratory [VDRL] test, Wiener Laboratories, Rosario, Argentina) and two TTs (fluorescent treponemal antibody absorption [FTA-ABS] test, Euroimmun, Lübeck, Germany, and syphilis recombinant ELISA v. 4.0 test [ELISA], Wiener Laboratories, Rosario, Argentina) using a panel of 187 samples, including serum samples from 31 individuals with primary syphilis, 77 with secondary syphilis, and 79 with latent syphilis. An additional 192 samples from uninfected individuals and 323 serum samples from individuals with other diseases were included. The sensitivities of the VDRL, ELISA, and FTA-ABS tests were 97.9%, 100%, and 96.3%, respectively. The VDRL and ELISA tests showed a specificity of 100%, and the FTA-ABS test showed a specificity of 99.5%. Accuracy was 98.9% for the VDRL test, 100% for the ELISA, and 97.9% for the FTA-ABS test. For primary, secondary, and latent syphilis, the ELISA achieved a diagnostic performance of 100%, whereas the sensitivity for the VDRL and FTA-ABS tests ranged from 96.8% to 98.7% and 93.7% to 98.7%, respectively. No difference was observed when the tests were used as traditional or reverse algorithms. In general, all three tests are able to discriminate positive and negative samples for syphilis, regardless of the diagnostic algorithm.PMID:38593786 | DOI:10.4269/ajtmh.23-0238
Source: The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene - Category: Tropical Medicine Authors: Ângelo Antônio Oliveira Silva Ayla Ara újo Lima Larissa de Carvalho Medrado Vasconcelos Ros ângela Andrade de Almeida Nat ália Erdens Maron de Freitas Fernanda Lopes Habib Talita Andrade Oliva Miralba Freire de Carvalho Ribeiro da Silva Isadora Crist Source Type: research
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