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Performance evaluation of eight treponemal antibody tests in China
Deju Xia1, Liufeng Yuan2, Qian Zhou3
1National Center for STD Control and Institute of Dermatology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Nanjing, China; National Institute for Food and Drug Control, Beijing, China.
Abstract:
In this study, the performance of 8 commercially available treponemal antibody tests was evaluated. Higher specificity was achieved in the automated chemiluminescence immunoassays(CIA assays) than enzyme-linked immunosorbent (ELISA) assays, but no significant differences were found in terms of the sensitivity levels. The levels of test sensitivity did not differ by HIV status and TRUST titer but did differ by clinical stage. The results of WB-IgG revealed that the level of antibodies against the 4 antigens showed an upward trend with the development of the clinical stages of syphilis, reaching a peak in tertiary syphilis and then decreasing. The present results supported the good performance of CIA tests used in the blood source screening of syphilis, which reduced the waste of plasma. The reaction intensities of anti-TP17 and TP47 antibodies in past treated syphilis samples were considerably weak and were expected to be used for monitoring the therapeutic effect of syphilis.
