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The development and validation of dried blood spots for external quality assurance of syphilis serology

BACKGROUND: Syphilis causes up to 1,500,000 congenital syphilis cases annually. These could be prevented if all pregnant women were screened, and those with syphilis treated with a single dose of penicillin before 28 weeks gestation. In recent years, rapid point-of-care tests have allowed greater ac...

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Autores principales: Smit, Pieter W, van der Vlis, Thomas, Mabey, David, Changalucha, John, Mngara, Julius, Clark, Benjamin D, Andreasen, Aura, Todd, Jim, Urassa, Mark, Zaba, Basia, Peeling, Rosanna W
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3586363/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23442198
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-13-102