Are Treponema pallidum Specific Rapid and Point-of-Care Tests for Syphilis Accurate Enough for Screening in Resource Limited Settings? Evidence from a Meta-Analysis

BACKGROUND: Rapid and point-of-care (POC) tests for syphilis are an invaluable screening tool, yet inadequate evaluation of their diagnostic accuracy against best reference standards limits their widespread global uptake. To fill this gap, a systematic review and meta-analysis was conducted to evalu...

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Autores principales: Jafari, Yalda, Peeling, Rosanna W., Shivkumar, Sushmita, Claessens, Christiane, Joseph, Lawrence, Pai, Nitika Pant
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3582640/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23468842
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0054695

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3582640/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23468842
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0054695

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