Limited efficacy of nontreponemal test combined with treponemal test in the initial syphilis screening algorithm.

CONCLUSION: The results of this study show that the combination of NTT and TT for initial screening does not provide any diagnostic gain, but represents additional laboratory work time.
PMID: 30570479 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Journal of Medical Microbiology - December 20, 2018 Category: Microbiology Authors: Gambiez C, Garet C, Choquet M, Decroix V, Pluquet E, Guiheneuf R, Castelain S Tags: J Med Microbiol Source Type: research