Presentation of Ocular Syphilis in a HIV-Positive Patient with False-Negative Serologic Screening

False Positive Serologic Reactions for Syphilis in Eosinophilia

Greval (1940) reported that some cases of ' Eosinophilia ' give false positive Wassermann reaction. More recently Menon (1945) and D'Abrera and Stork (1946) reported similar reactions in tropical eosinophilia. It was proposed to record results of Wassermann reaction and Kahn test in all cases of eosinophilia as a part of the investigation into the incidence of false positive serologic reactions...

Analysis of false positive HIV-1 serologic testing in Kenya.

Sera of 95 mothers and 129 children from Nairobi, Kenya, collected in 1976, and of 466 adults and 193 children of Embu District, Kenya, collected in 1984 and 1985, were analyzed for the presence of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) antibodies. Although no HIV-1 seropositivity was demonstrated by western blot analysis in both study groups, 7% of Nairobi mothers and 10% of adult females...

Malignant syphilis with ocular involvement in an HIV-infected patient.

Malignant syphilis is now considered a rare disease, more commonly affecting individuals with poor health, malnutrition or HIV infection. We present a 34-year-old man with HIV infection who developed multiple atypical cutaneous ulcerations, leonine facies, a scleral nodule and keratitis with visual loss. The diagnosis of malignant syphilis was delayed due to the insidious presentation, but was ...

[Ocular syphilis: a rare presentation of secondary syphilis in an immunocompetent patient].

HIV false positive results and Flu vaccination

Abstract False positive results are the major problem influencing interpretation of Clinical Laboratory test. They are originated mostly in the other diseases, technical errors and the recent vaccination. The problem has been presented since 1991 is positive HIV test after influenza Vaccination (1). The False positive has been reported in Cases using Eliza, one of The most common test to screen...