Background: More laboratories are screening for syphilis with automated treponemal immunoassays. We compared direct costs and downstream consequences when a local public health laboratory switches ...

The FDA on Friday granted marketing authorization to NOWDiagnostics for the first at-home, over-the-counter syphilis screening test. The authorization follows last year's authorization of the first at ...

This week, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cleared the way for putting the first at-home, over-the-counter test to detect syphilis antibodies in human blood. Test-kits for syphilis for the ...

Positive results indicate the presence of antibodies to syphilis that require follow-up with a health care provider. The First To Know ® Syphilis Test is now available for purchase nationwide to be ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Pre-intervention, only 6.2% encounters included syphilis testing, which increased to 52.4% postintervention.

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Congenital syphilis testing has been recommended by medical professionals in the first and third trimester since 2014, but a new pilot program by the Louisiana Department of ...

In a busy clinic in Jackson, Mississippi, a clinician performs a rapid syphilis test on a pregnant woman. Within 15 minutes, the results are in — she is infected — and treatment can begin immediately.

Electron micrograph imagery of Treponema pallidum, the bacteria that cause syphilis, including a foreground close-up of a single particle (right). Spiral-shaped bacteria are colorized in gold. The ...