Recent Advances in Venereology

King, Ambrose J.

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“…These reactions last for a few days to a few weeks, or at the most six months after the patient's recovery from the cause of the reaction, when they disappear spontaneously (King, 1964). The reagin test results are usually weakly reactive, with low titres, and there are frequently discrepancies between the results of individual tests (Garner, 1966 infective-hepatitis, X irus pneumonia, and malaria, and also following vaccination and immunization (King, 1964).…”

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“…Chronic biological false positive reactions are characterized by the persistence of reactive reagin tests for a period exceeding six months and by the absence of those disorders known to cause the acute reaction (King, 1964). Chronic reactions may last for years or even for life.…”

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“…ILLUSTRATIVE CASE 2 Serum was tested from P.C., a 65-year-old woman (Table II Conditions associated with the chronic biological false positive reaction are leprosy (Nelson, 1952); systemic lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatic fever, polyarteritis nodosa (Zellman, 1952); lymphatic leukaemia, pernicious anaemia, and metastatic carcinoma (King, 1964). The chronic type of reaction is commoner in females than in males; about 70 % of patients are females (Moore and Lutz, 1955).…”

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“…In a longstanding case of treated syphilis it is more usual for the RPCF, TPI, and usually the fluorescent antibody absorption tests to be reactive and the CWR and VDRL test non-reactive. Before the introduction of the TPI test the distinction between a chronic biological false positive reaction and latent syphilis in patients with no evidence of disease was a matter of probability, and in many cases antisyphilitic treatment was given to cover the risk of misdiagnosis (King, 1964 (Garner, Backhouse, Collins, and Roeder, 1969).…”

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“…A biological false positive reaction may be defined as a positive reaction to reagin tests, and a negative reaction to treponemal tests, in the serum of a patient who has no history or clinical evidence of syphilis or other treponematosis (King, 1964 (VDRL) test, and negative reactions to the Reiter protein complement-fixation (RPCF), Treponema pallidum immobilization (TPI), and fluorescent treponemal antibody absorption tests. The TPI test is the test of choice to confirm a biological false positive result.…”

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The biological false positive reaction to serological tests for syphilis

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1969

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1969

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T-strain Mycoplasma. Selective inhibition by erythromycin in vitro.

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Baker³

1966

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Prostatitis after urethritis in Singapore.

Thin¹

1974

Sexually Transmitted Infections

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Prostatitis is usually more common after nongonococcal urethritis (NGU) than after gonococcal urethritis (King, 1964; British Medical3Journal, 1972; Schofield, 1972 (Pelouze, 1939; Blacldock, 1969;Meares, 1973), indicating the presence of prostatitis. At least thirty fields were examined before a specimen was regarded as normal.Received for publication January 1, 1974 Treatment was with erythromycin 250 mg. four times daily for 4 weeks and/or prostatic massage weekly for 4 weeks, but military duties prevented some patients from attending regularly for this.A group of patients with general medical conditions were also studied using the same methods. All were examined after holding their urine overnight.In view of the prostatic fluid findings among the patients treated for urethritis, data based on the same criteria were extracted retrospectively from the notes of patients seen personally who had acquired urethritis in Britain. The patients were soldiers attending the army clinic at the Royal Herbert Hospital, London. No details of defaulters from observation were available and treatment for gonorrhoea was Triplopen *penicillin 2-5 m.u. intramuscularly. In all other respects the management of these patients was the same. This group is not comparable with the patients studied in Singapore, but provides an indication of the incidence of post-urethritis prostatitis among soldiers in Britain.Results 338 British soldiers treated for urethritis in Singapore entered the study but, for the reasons shown in Table I, only 95 patients treated for gonorrhoea, 66 treated for NGU, and fifteen treated for gonorrhoea and post-gonococcal urethritis (PGU), completed the full investigations. *Triplopen 2.5 m.u. =benethamine penicillin 1 m.u., procaine penicillin 0.5 m.u., and sodium penicillin 1 m.u.

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Recent Advances in Venereology

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The biological false positive reaction to serological tests for syphilis

The biological false positive reaction to serological tests for syphilis

T-strain Mycoplasma. Selective inhibition by erythromycin in vitro.

Prostatitis after urethritis in Singapore.

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