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SUBMITTER: Clement ME
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5850439 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Clement Meredith E ME Hammouda Amr A Park Lawrence P LP Maxwell Jason J Samoff Erika E Seña Arlene C AC Joyce Maria M
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 20171101 11
We evaluated the syphilis reverse sequence algorithm (RSA) in a Veteran Affairs facility, finding 5.5% reactive Treponema pallidum enzyme immunoassay (EIA) tests. In a subset of EIA+/VDRL-/TP-PA+ cases, 48% were previously treated. Of veterans with unknown/no prior therapy, only 45% had documentation of subsequent treatment, suggesting suboptimal interpretation of RSA results. ...[more]