TPI Test in Treated Syphilis

TPI test in treated syphilis.

The Treponema pallidum immobilization (TPI) test has received wide attention as a diagnostic test for syphilis, but few studies have appeared on the response of this test to adequate treatment for syphilis. The Blue Star study of the Public Health Service (Bauer, 1951 ; Shafer, Usilton, and Price, 1954) offered a group of patients who had had bonafide syphilis, who had been adequately treated, ...

TPI Test in Untreated Syphilis: A SEROLOGICAL RE-EXAMINATION OF 50 PATIENTS BELONGING TO "THE OSLO STUDY OF UNTREATED SYPHILIS".

The Boeck-Bruusgaard series of cases of untreated syphilis consists of approximately 2,000 patients with primary and/or secondary syphilis, hospitalized in the Dermatological Department, University Hospital, Oslo, in the 20 years between 1891 and 1910. Prof. Caesar Boeck, who was head of the Dermatological Department in those years, had very little belief in the effect upon early syphilis of th...

Tpi Test in Untreated Syphilis * a Serological Re - Examination of 50 Patients

The Boeck-Bruusgaard series of cases of untreated syphilis consists of approximately 2,000 patients with primary and/or secondary syphilis, hospitalized in the Dermatological Department, University Hospital, Oslo, in the 20 years between 1891 and 1910. Prof. Caesar Boeck, who was head of the Dermatological Department in those years, had very little belief in the effect upon early syphilis of th...

Studies on the treponemal immobilization test. III. Use of the TPI as a verification test in suspected latent syphilis.

Treponema pallidum haemagglutination test for syphilis. Comparison with TPI and FTA-ABS tests.

The Treponema pallidum haemagglutination (TPHA) test, the latest to be developed in the group of specific tests for syphilis, has been described by Tomizawa and Kasamatsu (1966), Rathlev (1967), Tomizawa, Kasamatsu, and Yamaya (1969), and Tringali (1970.) An automated microhaemagglutination technique, the AMHA-Tp test, has been evaluated by Cox, Logan, and Norins (1969) and Logan and Cox (1970)...