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Seroprevalence of syphilis in injecting drug users
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نویسنده
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hameed a. ,izhar m. ,fatima n.
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منبع
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pakistan journal of medical and health sciences - 2010 - دوره : 4 - شماره : 2 - صفحه:109 -111
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چکیده
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Study design: it is a comparative and cross sectional study. setting: study was carried in department of microbiology,shaikh zayed hospital lahore. subjects and methods: a total of 197 injecting drug users,age 15-50 years were selected. presence of syphilis was detected by rapid plasma reagin (rpr) and enzyme immunoassay syphilis. results: injecting drug users showed syphilis positive by enzyme immunoassay were 51 (25.9%) and by rapid plasma reagin 81(41.1%). number of cases missed by rapid plasma reagin was 17(33.3%). conclusion: enzyme immunoassay syphilis was more accurate for syphilis diagnosis than rapid plasma reagin.
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کلیدواژه
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Enzyme immunoassay syphilis; Injecting drug users
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آدرس
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demonstrator pathology,sh. zayed hospital, Pakistan, department of microbiology,sh. zayed hospital, Pakistan, demonstrator haematology,sh. zayed hospital, Pakistan
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