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Improving the coverage and accuracy of syphilis testing: The development of a novel rapid, point-of-care test for confirmatory testing of active syphilis infection and its early evaluation in China and South Africa

BACKGROUND: Current point-of-care tests (POCT) for syphilis, based on the detection of Treponema pallidum (TP) total antibodies, have limited capacity in distinguishing between active and past/treated syphilis. We report the development and early evaluation of a new prototype POCT based on the detec...

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Autores principales: Pham, Minh D., Wise, Amy, Garcia, Mary L., Van, Huy, Zheng, Shuning, Mohamed, Yasmin, Han, Yan, Wei, Wan-Hui, Yin, Yue-Ping, Chen, Xiang-Sheng, Dimech, Wayne, Braniff, Susie, Technau, Karl-Günter, Luchters, Stanley, Anderson, David A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7327895/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32637904
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eclinm.2020.100440