• A nontreponemal test (NTT) is a blood test for diagnosis of infection with syphilis. Nontreponemal tests are an indirect method in that they detect biomarkers...
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    infection by syphilis or related non-venereal treponematoses. It is one of several nontreponemal tests for syphilis (along with the Wassermann test and the...
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    the first blood test for syphilis and the first in the nontreponemal test (NTT) category. Newer NTTs, such as the RPR and VDRL tests, have mostly replaced...
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    between the stages of the disease. Blood tests are divided into nontreponemal and treponemal tests. Nontreponemal tests are used initially and include venereal...
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    Public Health Service.[citation needed] The VDRL is a nontreponemal serological screening for syphilis that is also used to assess response to therapy, to...
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    maternal and congenital syphilis. In the mother, a serologic diagnosis of syphilis is made using a nontreponemal test for syphilis such as the Venereal Disease...
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    Khalil G (June 24, 2020). "Syphilis Laboratory Guidelines: Performance Characteristics of Nontreponemal Antibody Tests". Clinical Infectious Diseases...
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    Treponema pallidum (redirect from TPI test)
    including nontreponemal VDRL, rapid plasma reagin, treponemal antibody tests (FTA-ABS), T. pallidum immobilization reaction, and syphilis TPHA test. Treponema...
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    Yaws (category Syphilis)
    pinta (T. carateum), and syphilis (T. p. pallidum). The appearance of the lesions often diagnoses yaws. Blood antibody tests may be useful, but cannot...
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    Meningeal syphilis (as known as syphilitic aseptic meningitis or meningeal neurosyphilis) is a chronic form of syphilis infection that affects the central...
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