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. 2010 Feb 26;15(2):66-9.
doi: 10.1186/2047-783x-15-2-66.

Evaluation of a new chemiluminescence immunoassay for diagnosis of syphilis

Xiaohui Mo  1 , Yuelan Jin, Yang Yang, Weizhong Hu, Weiming Gu
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Evaluation of a new chemiluminescence immunoassay for diagnosis of syphilis

Xiaohui Mo et al. Eur J Med Res. .

Abstract

Objective: To assess the sensitivity, specificity, and feasibility of a new chemiluminescence immunoassay (CLIA) in the diagnosis of syphilis.

Methods: At first, a retrospective study was conducted, using 135 documented cases of syphilis and 30 potentially interfering samples and 80 normal sera. A prospective study was also performed by testing 2, 071 unselected samples for routine screening for syphilis. CLIA was compared with a nontreponemal test (TRUST) and a treponemal test (TPPA).

Results: There was an agreement of 100% between CLIA and TPPA in the respective study. The percentage of agreement among the 245 sera tested was 100.0%. Compared with TPPA, the specificity of CLIA was 99.9% (1817/1819), the sensitivity of CLIA was 100.0% (244/244) in the prospective study. CLIA showed 99.5% agreement with TPPA by testing 2, 071 unselected samples. And CLIA seemed to be more sensitive than TPPA in detecting the samples of primary syphilis.

Conclusions: CLIA is easy to perform and the indicator results are objective and unequivocal. It may be suitable for large-scale screening as a treponemal test substituted for TPPA.

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