Evaluation of the Serodia Treponema pallidum particle agglutination, the Murex Syphilis ICE and the Enzywell TP tests for serodiagnosis of syphilis

Aktas G., Young H., Moyes A., Badur S.

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF STD & AIDS, cilt.16, sa.4, ss.294-298, 2005 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 16 Sayı: 4
  • Basım Tarihi: 2005
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1258/0956462053654195
  • Dergi Adı: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF STD & AIDS
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.294-298
  • İstanbul Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

We evaluated the Treponema pallidum haemagglutination assay (TPHA), a treponemal test, with three other treponemal tests, the Serodia T pallidum particle agglutination assay, the Murex Syphilis ICE IgG + IgM enzyme immunoassay (EIA) and the Enzywell TP IgG + M EIA (a new rapid EIA) for use in conjunction with the rapid plasma reagin test (RPR), a non-treponemal test, for serodiagnosis of syphilis. In all, 124 serum samples were found reactive with RPR and/or TPHA after testing by the routine laboratory protocol. Twenty-three (18.5%) of them were positive only by RPR test and were evaluated as biologically false-positive, 16 were positive only by the TPHA and 84 by both the RPR and TPHA tests; one sample was non-specific (heterophile reaction) in the TPHA.