A note on the course of reagin titres in chronic biologic false positive reactors.
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It is well known that some sera giving false positive reactions with the standard serological tests for syphilis (STS) show a pattern which is very seldom found in syphilitic sera, while in other falsely reacting sera the strength or pattern of the STS give no clue to specificity. Less attention seems to have been paid to the course of the STS titres in chronic positive STS reactors who are negative with the Treponema pallidum Immobilization Test (TPI).
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- The British journal of venereal diseases
دوره 35 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1959