Medscape

Has Your Lab Changed Its Syphilis Testing Protocol?

For decades, syphilis testing meant first screening a patient with a nontreponemal test, such as the rapid plasma reagin (RPR) test, which identifies recent or untreated syphilis but can yield ...
EDN

Modular platform adds EoPDH and RPR test capabilities

Innocor’s TestPoint platform for datacom and telecom testing offers Ethernet-over-PDH (EoPDH) and Resilient Packet Ring (RPR) test options. These new test capabilities are available as upgrades on the ...
JSTOR Daily

Onsite Rapid Antenatal Syphilis Screening With an Immunochromatographic Strip Improves Case Detection and Treatment in Rural South African Clinics

We compared 3 syphilis screening strategies at rural clinics: onsite rapid plasma reagin (RPR), onsite treponemal immunochromatographic strip (ICS) test, and the standard practice offsite RPR with ...
JSTOR Daily

Evaluation of RPR Card Test for Syphilis Screening in Field Investigations

After a 2-day training course at the Venereal Disease Research Laboratory, 28 nontechnical venereal disease investigators performed the rapid plasma reagin card test on more than 3,900 persons. The ...
Reuters

Fact Check: COVID-19 vaccines do not give you syphilis

An alert from U.S. health authorities about recipients of COVID-19 vaccines recording false positive results for syphilis has been misconstrued online. According to some social media users, the Food ...