ArticleTravel medicine and infectious disease
False-positive rapid plasma reagin testing in patients with acute Plasmodium vivax malaria: a case control study.
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- Syphilis Laboratory Guidelines: Performance Characteristics of Nontreponemal Antibody Tests.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2020Review
- A clinical audit of maternal syphilis in a regional hospital in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.Southern African journal of infectious diseases · 2020Article
- Inconclusive Syphilis Results: A Retrospective Review of Public Health Results.The Canadian journal of infectious diseases & medical microbiology = Journal canadien des maladies infectieuses et de la microbiologie medicale · 2020Article
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Abstract
Non-treponemal tests such as the rapid plasma reagin (RPR) assay are mainstays of syphilis diagnosis, but false-positive tests are common. We identified false-positive RPR titers in 8.2% of patients with malaria due to Plasmodium vivax in northern Peru. Similar rates were not detected in patients with other acute febrile illnesses.
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