Using a dual antibody point-of-care test with visual and digital reads to diagnose syphilis among people living with HIV in Botswana

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العنوان: Using a dual antibody point-of-care test with visual and digital reads to diagnose syphilis among people living with HIV in Botswana
المؤلفون: Aamirah Mussa, Adriane Wynn, Nametso Tlhako, Doreen Ramogola-Masire, Chelsea Morroni, Michael Marks, David S Lawrence, Irfaan Maan, Kehumile Ramontshonyana
المصدر: International Journal of STD & AIDS
سنة النشر: 2021
مصطلحات موضوعية: Male, Pediatrics, medicine.medical_specialty, Point-of-care testing, 030231 tropical medicine, Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), HIV Infections, Dermatology, medicine.disease_cause, Diagnostic system, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Pregnancy, Original Research Articles, medicine, Humans, Pharmacology (medical), 030212 general & internal medicine, Syphilis, sexually transmitted infections, Botswana, biology, business.industry, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Infant, Newborn, HIV, medicine.disease, Infectious Diseases, Reading, Point-of-Care Testing, Africa, biology.protein, Female, point-of-care test, Antibody, business, Viral load, Antenatal data
الوصف: Syphilis data from low- and middle-income countries are lacking due to limited testing. Point-of-care tests (POCTs) have been promoted to expand testing but previously only included treponemal tests, which cannot distinguish active from past infection. We aimed to assess the feasibility of using a combined treponemal and non-treponemal POCT in HIV clinic patients in Gaborone, Botswana, and estimate syphilis prevalence in our clinic sample using this approach. We recruited 390 non-pregnant patients. Participants underwent a combined treponemal and non-treponemal POCT (Dual Path Platform (DPP®) Syphilis Screen and Confirm Assay (Chembio Diagnostic Systems)) on finger-prick blood sample and a questionnaire. Median age 45 years, 30% men, median CD4 count 565 cells/μL, and 91% had an HIV viral load
تدمد: 1758-1052
URL الوصول: https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::8c00c16a64bf1397f1799603740083f3
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33570464
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