TY - JOUR
T1 - Cross-reactivity between Lyme and syphilis screening assays
T2 - Lyme disease does not cause false-positive syphilis screens
AU - Patriquin, Glenn
AU - LeBlanc, Jason
AU - Heinstein, Charles
AU - Roberts, Catherine
AU - Lindsay, Robbin
AU - Hatchette, Todd F.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Elsevier Inc.
PY - 2016/3/1
Y1 - 2016/3/1
N2 - Increased rates of Lyme disease and syphilis in the same geographic area prompted an assessment of screening test cross-reactivity. This study supports the previously described cross-reactivity of Lyme screening among syphilis-positive sera and reports evidence against the possibility of false-positive syphilis screening tests resulting from previous Borrelia burgdorferi infection.
AB - Increased rates of Lyme disease and syphilis in the same geographic area prompted an assessment of screening test cross-reactivity. This study supports the previously described cross-reactivity of Lyme screening among syphilis-positive sera and reports evidence against the possibility of false-positive syphilis screening tests resulting from previous Borrelia burgdorferi infection.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2015.11.019
DO - 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2015.11.019
M3 - Article
C2 - 26707064
AN - SCOPUS:84958606588
SN - 0732-8893
VL - 84
SP - 184
EP - 186
JO - Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease
JF - Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease
IS - 3
ER -
