The Wassermann test or Wassermann reaction (WR) is an antibody test for syphilis, named after the bacteriologist August Paul von Wassermann, based on...
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the Advancement of Science in Berlin-Dahlem (1913). Wassermann developed a complement fixation test for the diagnosis of syphilis in 1906, just one year...
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Rapid plasma reagin (redirect from Rapid Plasma Reagin test)
several nontreponemal tests for syphilis (along with the Wassermann test and the VDRL test). The term reagin means that this test does not look for antibodies...
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toluidine red unheated serum test (TRUST). These have mostly replaced the first nontreponemal test, the Wassermann test.[citation needed] Syphilitic infection...
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for infectious diseases, particularly through improvements to the Wassermann test for syphilis and early work on tuberculosis diagnostics. His career...
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Wasserman (redirect from Wassermann (disambiguation))
Look up Wasserman or Wassermann in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Wasserman or Wassermann is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Aaron...
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Premarital medical examination (category Infectious disease blood tests)
common blood test for syphilis was the Wassermann test, developed in 1906 by August von Wassermann, though results of the alternative Kahn test were also...
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patients with syphilis. One year later, the first effective test for syphilis, the Wassermann test, was developed. Although it had some false positive results...
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C-reactive protein (redirect from Hs-CRP test)
States this would represent off-label use, making it a laboratory-developed test under FDA regulations. In healthy adults, the normal concentrations of CRP...
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appraisals of his work, Dorothy Parker reputedly said: "I'd rather flunk my Wassermann test than read a poem by Edgar Guest." In 1924, American composer Gertrude...
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complement-fixation testing methods that enabled the development of serological tests for syphilis (specifically, the development of the Wassermann test by August...
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Hideyo Noguchi (section Butyric acid test)
working on a syphilis skin test, which could provide an additional diagnostic procedure to complement the Wassermann test in the detection of syphilis...
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Waldeyer, anatomist: named the chromosome August von Wassermann, bacteriologist: developed the "Wassermann test" for syphilis Felix Weingartner, Austrian conductor...
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Bordet–Gengou agar, a type of agar plate The Wassermann test, also known as the Bordet–Wassermann test Bordet railway station in Belgium Institut Jules...
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states passed laws requiring both parties to a marriage to undergo a Wassermann test (or equivalent) for syphilis. If one of the parties was found to have...
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muscle. Cardiolipin from a cow heart is used as an antigen in the Wassermann test for syphilis. Anti-cardiolipin antibodies can also be increased in...
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for providing a firm diagnosis long before Treponema pallidum or the Wassermann test were discovered. By contrast, his insistence that leprosy was caused...
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Hungarian immunologist, Dr Laszlo Detre de Surany, co-discoverer of the Wassermann test for syphilis, and his wife, Lillian Coblenzer, who settled at Washington...
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to determine whether he was cured of syphilis. The results of this Wassermann test concluded he was free from the disease. White, Stephen (27 December...
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the following year the Wassermann test for identification of the syphilis infection was created. From 1909 the Wassermann test was used at Queensland's...
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identity of True's biological father is not known. The results of a Wassermann test within this hospital concluded True was free from this disease. Shortly...
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labelled as a "Sex Delinquent" and has been tested positive for the Wassermann test (one of the earliest test for syphilis). Mrs. Merrill tells Mrs. Dixon...
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important fundamental research on a now common test for diseases (e.g. the "Wassermann test" of August von Wassermann). He served as secretary general of the...
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public law required the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to certify and test penicillin samplings validating the effectiveness, potency, purification...
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so Fairley developed a complement fixation test for the disease along the lines of the Wassermann test. He studied its pathology, confirming that the...
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Mazzini test for syphilis, also known as the lipoidal flocculation test. This test was an improvement over the commonly used Wassermann test as it was...
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2015. Malte Wassermann. "Responsive design testing tool – Viewport Resizer – Emulate various screen resolutions - Best developer device testing toolbar"...
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a decade of consultations with author Karen Blixen. He performed a Wassermann test, confirming Syphilis and she subsequently commenced treatments including...
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Phoenix received a Golden Globe nomination for his performance. Beau Wassermann, the son of Mona, a wealthy businesswoman, grows up without a father,...
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